Turkey Breaks World Tree-Planting Record November 19, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Turkey has made 11/11 a National Tree Planting Day and broke the world record by planting 303,150 saplings within an hour in the central province of Corum. What started with a tweet quickly turned into a nationwide campaign, aiming for 11 million saplings to be planted. Instead, more than 13 million saplings were donated in a very short time.