Daria’s Letter Reaches Turkish Readers During COP31

Daria Egereva’s message from detention in Russia is reaching Turkish-speaking readers during COP31. On 10 November, climate outlet İklim Haber published the ECO bulletin containing her letter. A day later, the People’s Climate Summit also drew attention to her words in its monitoring notes from Antalya.

İklim Haber Publishes the Letter in Turkish

The 10 November publication in İklim Haber brings together material from Climate Action Network’s ECO newsletter. Alongside debates about moving away from fossil fuels, adaptation finance and a just transition, it includes a section devoted to Daria’s letter to her Indigenous colleagues.

Her message describes an absence that imprisonment cannot turn into separation. She writes about preparing collective statements, reaching agreement and the colleagues whose support she continues to feel through court proceedings and detention.

This is the Turkish publication of the ECO material, rather than a new interview. We previously reported on the letter’s appearance in the COP31 newsletter.

A Voice Heard Beyond the Negotiating Rooms

In its monitoring note of 11 November, the People’s Climate Summit places the letter within a critical account of COP31’s opening days. The note discusses the gap between climate promises and fossil fuel expansion, the burden of climate loans and demands for a just transition.

It then highlights Daria’s message from prison: the voice on trial is not hers alone, but a collective voice. Her case thus appears within a broader discussion of whose interests climate policy serves and whose voices it allows to be heard.

The same note announces the People’s Climate Summit in Antalya on 14–18 November. Its reference to Daria carries her story into the public discussion around the UN conference as well as the conference itself.

Solidarity Across Languages

For us, these publications matter because a letter can travel where its author cannot. Translation gives more people an opportunity to encounter Daria through her own words, her work and her relationship with fellow Indigenous representatives.

Daria and Natalia Leongardt remain in detention in Russia. International attention must continue to be accompanied by demands for their freedom and practical solidarity. Read Daria’s full letter on our website.

Cover: editorial illustration created for the December 17 Case campaign.