Turks dim lights to raise climate awareness for Earth Hour

STORY: Turks dim lights to raise climate awareness for Earth Hour DATELINE: March 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:20 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of World Wildlife Fund logo 2. SOUNDBITE (English): NEYRAN AKYILDIZ, Communication manager of WWF Turkey 3. various of Istanbul city in Turkey 4. various of Istiklal Street, nostalgic train carrying passengers, thousands of people walking down the street 5. SOUNDBITE (English): NEYRAN AKYILDIZ, Communication manager of WWF Turkey 6. various of part of the Earth Hour event, the lights of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge were turned off STORYLINE: Turkish people on Saturday turned off their lights on the occasion of the global Earth Hour event to bring broader public attention to the climate change issue. From 8:30 p.m. local time (1730 GMT), the Turks joined millions across the globe to turn off non-essential electric lights for an hour, as part of the annual public campaign organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) since 2007. Neyr