Istanbul pulls out of Live Earth
Istanbul will not be staging a Live Earth concert - part of a series of concerts around the world on July 7 to raise climate change awareness, organisers said today, citing insufficient interest and sponsors.
Organisers will, instead, set up a large screen in Istanbul for Turks to watch the Live Earth concerts in other cities, Cengizhan Yeldan of the Purple Concerts, the company that was organising the Istanbul show, said.
Purple Concerts said last week they hoped to hold a scaled down version of the concerts in Istanbul because of the lack of sponsorship they received.
The company however, conceded today that there was not enough time to organise that and pulled out of the concerts.
"Despite all our efforts, there is no possibility to hold a live performance due to a lack of time," the company said in a statement.
Concerts are planned for London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro and Hamburg.
