A company wanting to make a work of drilling to search for mine in Yeşilkent, Çiğdem and Üçpınar neighborhoods of Ünye district in Ordu, came back to the region with the gendarmerie after they faced reactions by the residents a months ago. The gendarmerie didn’t allow the protest of the villagers against the mining, based on the pandemic and constructed barricades in front of houses and fields. Villagers performing a sit-in protest in the drilling area were intervened against with tear gas. Many villagers were detained in the protests, which went on for two days.
28.10.2020
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