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.