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COP31 documentary shares the lives of Turkey’s Sarıkeçili Yörüks
A documentary called The Yörüks tells the lives of Sarıkeçili families who live in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains.
The film was released on official COP31 accounts as Antalya prepares to host the UN climate conference.
It follows Yörük families whose way of life is shaped by moving with and adapting to nature.
The documentary draws on 45 days of filming and traces Yörük journeys from Central Asia to the Balkans.
Its stories include a man carrying an injured baby goat back to his shelter and a farming family in North Macedonia.
COP31 President and Turkish environment minister Murat Kurum shared the film, presenting the families’ relationship with nature as a reminder that the world is our shared home.
The film was made to carry that message to countries ahead of COP31.
The COP31 presidency’s documentary The Yörüks tells the stories of Sarıkeçili Yörük families living in the Taurus Mountains.
The film presents their relationship with nature as rooted in a long-standing way of life.
It follows Yörük communities from Central Asia to the Balkans and summarizes 45 days of filming.
COP31 President and Turkish Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum shared the documentary.
The film was released through the COP31 presidency’s official accounts ahead of the conference in Antalya.
- Who
- Sarıkeçili Yörük families and other Yörük communities featured in the documentary.
- What
- The COP31 presidency released The Yörüks, a documentary about Yörük life and people’s relationship with nature.
- When
- It was reported on November 7, 2026. The sources do not state the exact release date.
- Where
- The documentary features families in the Taurus Mountains in Antalya and Yörük communities as far as the Balkans.
- Why
- It was made for COP31 to share the message that the world is our common home.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The documentary filmed Yörük stories spanning communities from Central Asia to the Balkans.
The COP31 presidency released The Yörüks through its official accounts.
Habertürk and Sabah reported on the documentary and Kurum’s post.
- Documentary
- The Yörüks (Yörükler)
- Filming
- 45 days
- Featured families
- Sarıkeçili Yörük families in the Taurus Mountains
- COP31 host city
- Antalya
- COP31 president
- Murat Kurum
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What people are saying
Happiness is wherever home is. In the world of the Yörüks, home is not made up of four walls; it is beneath the sky, in line with the stars, in the embrace of the forest. This life at the peak of the Taurus Mountains reminds us once again of the simplest truth on the road to COP31: our common home is the world.
You are not made a Yörük; you are born a Yörük.
Even though it is hard, it does not seem hard to us. We say these are the conditions of life. We try to live.
If we do not see the stars, if we do not see the moon, if we do not see the sunrise, we cannot live. Put this person in a closed room, and there you have a grave.
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"Mutluluk neredeyse ev orasıdır" Yörüklerin dünyasında ev, dört duvardan ibaret değildir; gökyüzünün altı, yıldızların hizası, ormanın kucağıdır. Torosların zirvesindeki bu yaşam, #COP31 yolunda en yalın gerçeği bir kez daha hatırlatıyor: Ortak evimiz dünya. Sarıkeçili