In a taz comment, Annika Reiß argues Turkey, host and agenda-setting presidency of the COP31 summit in Antalya, is no suitable stage for climate talks, calling it cynical to negotiate climate justice in a country where activist Esra Işık faces years in prison for protesting a coal mine expansion and courts have overridden European Court of Human Rights decisions. Turkey ranks 163rd of 180 in Reporters Without Borders' press freedom ranking, and Reiß hopes she will still be let in to report critically from the conference, where she finds the agreed payments to the Global South far short of what is needed.