The resistance established in the Turkey’s Kaz Mountains region near the gold mine operation left behind a week. The number of tents in the guard area started with a tent approached to 100. The protesters have only one request: “Stop the slaughter.”
“How do we apologize from the soil? How will we tell our children? How do we do this to human beings? We have to be unity. There is no other choice. Kaz Mountains desert. However, this place is paradise, mother’s lap…” These words belong to contemporary dancer Melis Tuzcuoğlu. While he was looking behind the security wires at the door of the gold mine, he couldn’t control his tears while he was saying these words. Dozens of activists like Tuzcuoğlu came together for the resistance that entered its seventh day and held a nö vigil of hope için for the liberation of the Kaz Mountains.
Reactions against the gold mining in Kaz Mountains are increasing rapidly. ‘Water and Consciousness Watch began with the name of the people who are growing day by day. Seizures of Turkey from the agenda at a time, a Canadian company operating license received by Alamos Gold’s mine in Canakkale area of about one kilometer near the village of Kirazli deployed condition.
“Forests belong to squirrels.”
The guard area was reminiscent of the Gezi Park Resistance that began in 2013 in Taksim. A large camping area has been created right next to the road that is separated from the main route by the ab Balaban ’sign. As you go through this short path, you understand that you have come to the seizure instead of the ‘Water and Conscience Seizure’ sign. The first banners were hung on the trees the protesters were trying to protect: “Forests are not miners, but squirrels”, “We will defend every tree one by one”, “Sixth fleet, leave Çanakkale…”
Tents are installed around the open area. In the common area there are places to eat, benches and shades. The ’social market offers tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers brought by the villagers. The tea kettle boils every hour.
There are continuous service vehicles between camp site and construction site. New attendants are taken to the construction site after the camp site. Resistance participants have the opportunity to watch the bald hills where the trees they saw from social media are cut down.
Oxygen tank was trees timber
The road to the construction site is full of pine and oak trees. On the side of the road, the piles of trees that have been cut down are filled. No entry to the area where Alamos Gold is licensed. 24-hour security at the door. Incoming citizens are not allowed to cross wire fences. The activists are informed at this point. Then the slogans were shouted and returned to the camp.
Salih Arslan, who lives in Çanakkale, was on guard duty with his wife and grandson İpek. “Our nature is perfect,” said Arslan, adding that 60 percent of Çanakkale is covered with forests and said: “Why do different people come here to ruin our nature? Canakkale has vast areas in terms of agriculture. Industry is not well developed. Here people can only survive with agriculture. We know that this mine will harm here, and for that we want this slaughter to be stopped. ”
Protest with Ciao Bella
He was playing a group of guitars in the tent area where the majority of the young people were playing, singing songs and songs he made for Kaz Mountains. One of these compositions was the altered words of Cav Bella: “The mountains of Kaz, the unique top, is much more valuable than gold… Tomato pepper, endemic plant, the delicate voice of the forest…” Original name ‘Bella Ciao’ Burak Çiftçi, one of the new songwriters of the song, explained the reason for joining the seizure as follows: “These companies have been plundering the bottom of Çanakkale for years.
Egemen İlter, a student of Agricultural Engineering at Çanakkale 18 Mart University, thinks that his constitutional right has been taken away from him: “Every individual has the right to live in a natural and balanced environment. I am here to defend it. We express our reaction with the songs we composed. We need support and more crowds.
Another name coming from Çanakkale to the resistance area is Zeynep Demir. After going to Ankara for a summer holiday, he learned that his friends were in resistance. He also took the road to Çanakkale for support. Demir, “I’m here to support my friends. I came to prevent the killing of our living spaces and will be here until the end,” she says.
The number of trees that have been cut is discussed, the gold mine operation at Kirazlı Balaban Tepe, which is currently the subject of resistance, is only one of the dozens of gold mine projects that are planned to be built in Kaz Mountains. It is a known fact that if all the projects are implemented, hundreds of thousands of trees will be cut down in the Kaz Mountains.
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