May Day demonstrations were led by labour unions, but during
the last decade there were other protest movements throughout the country and
many of these were about environmental issues. A particularly strong campaign
was launched against the gold
mining venture in the Western town of Bergama. The massive
resistance of the rural population of the region against this gold mining
operation, which used environmentally hazardous cyanide, was the most important
environmental social movement in Turkish history. Although the environmentalists were
supported by several court decisions, they were not able to stop the mining
operations.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ayse-bugra/turkey-what-lies-behind-nationwide-protests
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