Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) has issued a statement about the ongoing construction of hydroelectric power plants in Kurdistan and called for the enhancement of the struggle against the destruction of the nature and cultural heritage by their construction.

The statement of the DBP said that social and natural life in Mesopotamia have always been in harmony giving rise to a deep culture and that the hegemonic powers have always attempted to destroy the life in these lands at its roots. DBP remarked that the AKP government is pursuing a well planned strategy to destroy the life in Mesopotamia through the construction of hydroelectric power plants and dams.

DBP stressed in its statement that the destruction of nature in Kurdistan aims at the destruction of the culture and the very essence of humanity and life in Kurdistan.

The party said that the four seasons are lived together in Mesopotamia and this is why there is a richness of bio diversity in the region, but the hegemonic system, specifically the capitalist modernity, targets this bio diversity and the ecological balance, driven by the maximization of profits. DBP added that however the resistance against this destructive hegemony of capitalist modernity increases in the region to protect the life and the culture.

DBP said the current government of Turkey has accentuated this natural and cultural destruction by building shopping malls everywhere as well as hydroelectric plants and dams destroying the living area of all kind of living beings, adding that the war that continued over 40 years also contributed to a large extent to this destruction.

The explosions and chemicals used in the war period on the one hand and the construction of the dams and hydroelectric plants on the other hand led to destruction of the ecological balance in the region, said the statement of the DBP.

DBP further emphasised that it is the male dominant hegemonic system that first attacks the nature and culture, likening the policies of the AKP to that of ISIS that destroys the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Middle East.

The AKP government today -DBP said- is pursuing the very same policies with those of ISIS, in a well planned way through the construction of hydroelectric powers in Kurdistan.

DBP vowed to raise the struggle against the construction of the dams and hydroelectric plants, saying that as a party having a democratic, ecological program based on women’s liberation, it will continue its struggle against the destruction of biodiversity and the area of all living beings in the region.

Stressing that  it will engage in more activities in the coming period to say no to the construction of hydroelectric dams, DBP called on all the peoples of Kurdistan and Turkey, primarily the ecologists, to take part in the actions and to contribute to the struggle against the destruction of nature and culture in Kurdistan.