2012-04-18
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Animal products from GMO-fed animals will be labeled, says Agriculture Minister Eker. Turkey’s Minister of Agriculture Mehdi Eker gave the green light to label products from animals that have been fed genetically modified feed such as corn and soy. This is one of the conditions that Green Peace Turkey has recently been pushing for. Meat, milk, eggs, cheese and other products derived from animals, which have been fed genetically modified organism, will now be labeled to provide consumers with a choice when purchasing products.
2012-03-26
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Turkey will never produce vegetables or plants with genetically modified organisms, Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said at a March 23 meeting with editors from the Anatolian news agency. ”It is forbidden to produce any plants or vegetables in Turkey that have been genetically altered or genetically transferred. This is not happening, has never happened and will never happen,” said Eker, stressing that Turkey had passed a law on bio safety that had been approved by the United Nations General Directorate. Eker explained that despite pressure from various international organizations, Turkey had never imported or produced GMOs, unlike other countries.
2012-02-27
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If the committee grants TÜGIDER’s request, it will be the first time Turkey has imported GM soybeans for human consumption. The committee will draft a report on the economic and social impact of importing the GM soybeans, which will be published and opened to public comment on the Biosecurity Committee’s website. Following the acceptance of TÜGIDER’s application in January, many nongovernmental organizations and associations voiced their opposition. However, the committee’s president, Hakan Yardımcı, argued that they only permit or reject requests to import GM food after conducting careful research.
2012-01-16
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When it comes to genetically modified produce, public skepticism may be big, but big biotech’s reach may be even bigger, suggests a new Turkish regulation which legalizes the importation of genetically modified feed corn. The regulation, approved in late November by Ankara’s Biosecurity Committee and put into effect at the start of 2012, gives the green light to the importation and sale of 13 genetically modified varieties of corn for livestock feed, a sign to activists and biotech lobbyists alike that Turkey’s once bio-technologies adverse climate may be coming to an end.
2011-11-09
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US authorities have asked Turkey to be more tolerant with its legislation on GMO, a Turkish U.S. officials have asked for changes to be made to Turkey’s regulation on genetically modified organisms exports to Turkish markets, daily Radikal reported yesterday. The request came in response to a request by Turkish officials, who asked the U.S. to ease customs regulations for importing fresh food to the U.S. market. Turkey’s Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker denied the claim.
2011-10-13
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The deadline for public input on Turkey’s biosecurity committee’s recent regulation to allow the import of 10 kinds of animal feed made from genetically modified organisms passed yesterday. The regulation, which was brought about by Turkey’s Animal Feed Industrialists Association and the Meat and Egg Producers Association, foresees the import of 10 kinds of new genetically modified feed.
2011-09-19
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Turkey’s economy grew in Q2 for the ninth successive quarter, and by 8.8% on the previous year. The rate of GDP growth surprised even the central bank, and while inflation is not yet a concern, food prices are high and rising. This has brought the complicated issue of genetically modified food to the fore, with a request to the government from feed, poultry and egg producers to allow imports of three types of genetically GM corn to be used as animal and chicken feed. “We can solve our raw material problem only through imports,” says Ulku Karakus, chief of the Turkish Feed Industrialists Union, explaining the problem. “Costly feed translates into expensive meat. Unless we pull down the cost of feed, we cannot drive down meat prices.”
2011-07-07
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Turkish police have seized some 6,600 tons of genetically modified, or GM, corn from two ships from the Ukraine at the Bandırma port on the Marmara Sea. According to data by the Undersecretariat of Customs, police at customs in the northwestern province of Bursa learned the “Osama” and “Volgabolt242,” two ships from Ukraine, were carrying GM corn. Police raided the ships last month upon information that the ships would unload the corn in Bandırma, a town in the northwestern province of Balıkesir and finalize the import procedure there.
2011-06-30
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the 37th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation [...] will cover issues of the use of genetically modified organisms in the BSEC countries, the role of parliaments in accelerating scientific and technical cooperation, implementation of new sanitary standards of the World Health Organization
2011-05-02
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The NCC and Cotton Council International have prepared a statement for use by Turkish importers that should allow U.S. cotton to avoid genetically modified organisms analysis in gaining custom clearances. A memo from the General Directorate of Protection and Control within Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs instructed ports that GMO analysis should not be conducted on imported cotton fiber, provided that importers produce a letter of undertaking which declares that the imported cotton fiber does not contain GMOs.
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