In Turkey’s Akbelen Forest, villagers and environmental activists are fighting to protect centuries-old trees from a massive coal mine. The forest is not only their home—it also provides many with their livelihoods. The Erdogan government has denounced the protests as marginal and anti-development, sending security forces to back up Limak Holding, the major Turkish coal conglomerate behind the project. The Real News reports from Akbelen Forest.
Producer: Murat Bay
Associate Producer and Translation: Daniel Thorpe
Videographer: Murat Bay
Video editors: Daniel Thorpe and Leo Erhardt
Special thanks: Kazim Kizil, Diyar Saracoglu
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Ahh great NATO member Turkey doing its bit for the environment. I believe Germany still clearfells forests for industrial use too. Amazing how the climate crisis once again gets ignored in favour of big business and in this case coal of all things.
Either, you get to source the problem, the political traitors ..or fight against the police..
Fighting the police is going to be an unfair fight, if you are not protected or have guns…
At least it's a comfort to know there are good souls in this world. We rarely have power, and we often lose, but we have decency and kindness, and a clear conscience– which they do not.
This is why we invented mining , but I guess opencast mining is cheaper. 🥀
Was it public land?
Possible smoshible the geezer is squashable
Is the coal mining company required to restore the land after extraction is complete? If so, it's only a transitory blemish on the land.
They don't care where money is on offer. All politicians are lying greedy scum.
Wow, the only young people were the cops!
They shut down the production of natural gas and oil claiming its what's affecting the climate then they cut down the trees to do mining producing lithium and coal to heat and produce and store electricity. What is wrong with this picture greed greed greed greed these Global oligarchs want to kill us all
Obviously these aren't just cops they've been bribed to destroy the working class !
So much evil in the world today…
Fight them !
I can't stand to watch the ongoing rape of our beautiful planet ðŸ˜
Cops are cops no matter what country you’re in. Mindless soldiers of the State purposed to bring violence to citizens.
Cops are so abusive!
Yes it is a sin to destroy nature for money
We should stop burning coal anyway. This is just messed up on so many levels… 🤬
Everywhere around the world, "…nothing's as precious, as a hole in the ground". Midnight Oil/Blue Skye Mine
Bill Gates thinks forest need to be buried to save the planet
This is going on all over the globe very sadly, Fascism is prevailing once again in the modern world.