Hurriyet Daily News , 3 September 2010 - The Green Party has called for 2 million Istanbul residents to gather at the Bosphorus on Oct. 2 to protest the construction of a third bridge over the Istanbul strait, which will allegedly result in the cutting down of 2 million trees. Citing an official document, Green Party representative Ümit Şahin told a Thursday press conference in Istanbul that more than 2 million trees in the northern part of the city would be cut because of the third bridge. “We received a document prepared by Istanbul Regional Forestry Directorate to be submitted to the Environment and Forestry Ministry. It says that 1.6 million trees on the [proposed] route of third bridge are going to be cut down if the project is carried out,” he said.

Hürriyet Daily News , August 12, 2010, Istanbul - The Green Party has jumped into the fray over the upcoming referendum, calling for a focus on protecting nature instead of the constitutional reforms, an idea it poses as a “fourth” way in the debate. Instead of saying “yes” or “no” to the referendum, or boycotting it altogether, as other opposition parties have suggested, the Greens say they have chosen to stay out of such political games altogether.

How this differs in practice from a boycott was unclear.

“We call on all the [political] parties and the people who are polarized with the referendum debates: First stop the destruction of nature, for our future!” the Green Party said in an Aug. 4 statement on its official website, calling on Turkish people to prioritize the movement to protect the environment.