Women visit Gökçealan village


2015-03-17 11:02:29

IZMIR (DİHA) – Activists in the World March of Women joined villagers yesterday to protest a planned quarry in Gökçealan Village, near Izmir.

The international march of women, which started in Nusaybin in Kurdistan along the Turkish-Syrian border, has now reached the village of Gökçealan, traveling more than 1,800 kilometers over the last ten days.The village is located in the Aegean province of Izmir. The marchers held a meeting with village women to learn about the planned quarry, then held a march through the village to protest the attack on nature. "Don't build a quarry, we'll just tear it down!" chanted the women.

Erkan Esen, of GökçealanAgricultural Irrigation and Development, explained that the governor of the state had decreed there was no need for an environmental assessment report in the area in an attempt to rush the project through, but that villagers would continue to resist. "Other women need to see this struggle," said YıldızTemurtürkan of the World March of Women. "We have come here to be inspired by your strength. We will follow your resistance to the end. Never give up."

The women next set out for Şirince village, which like Gökçealan is in the Selçuk region of Izmir province.

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