Dark Report 2020

Prepared by: The Right to Clean Air Platform
Published date: August 2020

This report is pioneering in terms of being the first one to calculate the preventable death counts since 2017 due to the air pollution in Turkey. It is the third study conducted by the Right to Clean Air Platform since 2015 in order to analyse the air quality in Turkey. The report is prepared by combining two consecutive reports from the Platform prepared in 2019 and 2020 about the details of air pollution and its health impacts in Turkey. Additionally, the report contains a specific evaluation of the official air quality data of 2019 as well as a four-year general evaluation of the state of air quality between 2016 – 2020. As another pioneering effort, for the first time, the Right to Clean Air Platform has used the AirQ+ program developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) European Office to calculate the number of deaths between 2017 – 2019 that could have been prevented by reducing air pollution in Turkey. Following the aforementioned statistics, the report also details the lacking aspects of legislation in Turkey about air pollution and proposes actions to improve the air quality in the country