They won a pioneering climate change lawsuit earlier this year – but few fishermen in the Turkish village of Tekelioglu feel hopeful that an ongoing battle in the courts can revive the dried-out lake where they have worked for generations.
“I don’t feel anything anymore,” retired fisherman, Suleyman Pekkara, who worked on Lake Marmara in western Turkiye for 50 years, said as he watched trucks driving past to pick up hay from the state farm that now occupies part of the lake bed.