ECOLOGY

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• Cizre Region Environmental Board plants 1,200 pine trees in village of Qamishlo 

  Cizre Region Environmental Board planted 1,200 pine trees in the village of Navkur in Qamishlo.
• AKP continues its ecocide in Hakkari 

  While many stream beds in Hakkari were buried in concrete under the name of 'improvement', trees, plants and animals were slaughtered and natural life was destroyed.
• Ecology Film Days kick off in Amed 

  The second edition of the "Ecology Film Days" kicked off in Amed.
• Ecocide in Northern Kurdistan continues 

  MP Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit denounced the ruling AKP's policy of depopulation and ecocide and called on everyone to raise their voices against it.
• A forest fire is spreading on Mount Cûdî, in the province of Şırnak 

  A forest fire is spreading further and further on Mount Cûdî in the northern Kurdish province of Şırnak. Due to restricted military areas, the fire cannot be stopped.
• Ecocide in Kurdistan 

  The Turkish government is committing crimes against the environment in Kurdistan.
• Livestock farming in Hakkari hit by economic crisis 

  In the Kurdish province of Hakkari, a large part of the population lives from livestock farming. Many people in the villages collect grass from the mountain pastures in the summer to turn it into hay and feed it to their animals in winter.
• Village guards destroy forests in Şırnak countryside 

  The destruction of Kurdistan's forests is a direct continuation of the village destruction policy of the 1990s
• Make Rojava Green Again: Ecocide in Kurdistan is the product of colonization 

  Make Rojava Green Again has published a new article called "Ecocide in Kurdistan: A product of colonization".
• AKP-MHP government systematically slaughters forests in Bitlis 

  The AKP-MHP government is systematically slaughtering forests to turn the entire Hizan into a military base.
• Sheperding in Hakkari is disappearing 

  In Hakkari, where unemployment is very high, some citizens work as shepherds away from their homes for months to make a living.
• Turkey continues to cut Euphrates River's water, affecting thousands living in Rojava 

  The policy of cutting off the water of the Euphrates River carried out by the Turkish state is affecting thousands of people living in Northern and Eastern Syria.
• 10th dam to be built on the Tigris River  

  The "Cizre Dam" project to be built on the Tigris River in Cizre was approved. Many settlements will be flooded by the new dam.
• Village guards cut down trees in the village of Xelîkan 

  With the support of the Turkish state, the village guards are cutting down trees around the village of Xelîkan in the Hawêl district.
• HEPP, dam and sand quarry on Pasûr Stream badly affect life of 50 villages 

  The dam, sand quarry and HEPPs built by the Turkish state on Pasûr Stream are causing problems in 50 villages where clean water is hard to get. The villagers want this problem that has been going on for years to be solved.
• Fire on Gabar Mountain continues to spread 

  The fire, which broke out on Gabar Mountain in Şirnak on 17 August, spread to a wide area because of the wind as no intervention was made.
• Euphrates Dam could stop if water level is not restored 

  The direction of the operation room of the Euphrates Dam warned that if the water level in the dam drops another 2 meters, the dam will stop.
• Kurdish issue discussed at No Borders Climacamp in Basel 

  Özen Aytaç from the women's association YJK-S spoke at the No Borders Climacamp in Basel about the Kurdish freedom movement's understanding of ecology.
• Tree felling begins in Kaz Mountain 

  Tree cutting has begun for a mining expansion project in the Kaz Mountain (Mount Ida), despite ongoing legal proceedings.
• Citizens in Ulubey protest mining operation 

  Citizens in the neighborhoods of Çatallı and Yeni Sayaca in Ulubey protested the carrying out of a planned mining operation.
• IHD Peace Vigil protests eco-crimes 

  The Peace Vigil held by the IHD Izmir Branch protested the eco-crimes carried out by the Turkish state.
• The fires in Cudi tell of the Turkish army, quarries, oil companies 

  Although a week has passed since the forest fires that started on 26 July in the Cudi region of Sirnak, they have not yet been brought under control. Interventions to these deliberate fires are prevented by the same security forces.
• Internationalists defend Öcalan’s paradigm of democratic confederalism at "No TAV" festival in Italy 

  In Valsusa, northern Italy, the "NO TAV" festival took place from 29 to 31 July. People from Italy and France came together to protest against the construction project of the Treno ad Alta Velocità (TAV).
• Tree felling in Akbelen continues, so does resistance 

  Despite the Muğla Governor's statement saying that "the tree felling has come to an end", the cutting of trees continued in Akbelen on Monday.
• Tree cutting continues in Akbelen 

  Local people and environmentalists continue their protest in the Akbelen forest, in the village of İkizköy in Muğla, against the building of a coal mine.