Hand in hand against nuclear power
Hand in hand against nuclear power
Gathering at 30 separate points, thousands of people made a 159 km human chain from Mersin city to Akkuyu town where the government is planning to install a nuclear power plant, in agreement with Russia.
The protest action, which was joined by the city’s all democratic society organzations, intellectuals, writers, artists, musicians, journalists, chamber and trade bodies and unions as well as ten thousands of citizens, was also given an active support by Labor, Freedom and Democracy Block’s Mersin Independent Candidate Ertugrul Kürkcü, KESK General Director Döndü Taka Cýnar, BDP PM member Mehmet Duymaz, BDP Provincial Chair Cihan Yýlmaz, BDP’s Akdeniz Municipality Mayor M. Fazýl Türk, TMMOB Board Chair Mehmet Sogancý, CHP Mersin PM Isa Gök
Drawing attention to the large participation from all circles and ages, the protest action passed into history as the most crowded human chain ever made in Mersin and Turkey. Coming together at the city center and main points, thousands held hands and called the AKP government to give up making agreements and policies to turn a heaven into a hell. The musicians enlivened the chain with the songs and marches against nuclear power and the government they sang walking along the chain.
Kürkcü: Mersin protest is a rebellion
Giving his support to the action wearing a t-shirt written “We do not want a nuclear plant”, Kürkcü evaluated the AKP government’s insistence on nuclear plants as a ‘rent’despite all the objections of the Mersin people and all sensitive environmentalists. Kürkcü said the folllowing; “The protest today and here must be taken by the AKP governments as a rebel. The idea of rent seeking via people is very dangerous and fatal. The AKP is acting as if joking with the people while the Fukushima example is still alive”.
Kürkcü continued as follows; “A Prime Minister with a mentality that compares the nuclear with a picnic tube, is trying to rule this country today. It is time all the people of Turkey woke up. The government, which also remains insensitive to the Kurdish rebellion lasting for 30 years now, insists on a governing mentality that makes an attempt on the whole life of the peoples. However, all our people including Turks and Kurds have now woken up. I believe they will give the most beautiful answer to the government on June 12”.
Reading a press statement before thousands of people singing and chanting slogans against nuclear power plants, Mersin Anti-Nuclear Platform Term-Spokeswoman Sabahat Aslan said; “Something different lies behind the insistance of the AKP government on nuclear power plants while the whole world desists from them. We have organized ths protest act to warn the government once more. Despite all attempts, those intending to turn our country to a nuclear waste yard under the name of ‘nuclear power plant installments’ will be taken the wind out of their sails”.
Speaking afterwards, Akdeniz Municipality Mayor M. Fazýl Türk said that they will call the AKP to account, without making benefits available for others.
“AKP, take your hands from Mersin and our lives”, “Tayyip, do not be all greek to Mersin”, “The day will come when the AKP will answer the people for all” were the main slogans chanted by the people in the chain who were also given continuous supports by the horns sounded by the cars passing along the chain.
The protest action, which was joined by the city’s all democratic society organzations, intellectuals, writers, artists, musicians, journalists, chamber and trade bodies and unions as well as ten thousands of citizens, was also given an active support by Labor, Freedom and Democracy Block’s Mersin Independent Candidate Ertugrul Kürkcü, KESK General Director Döndü Taka Cýnar, BDP PM member Mehmet Duymaz, BDP Provincial Chair Cihan Yýlmaz, BDP’s Akdeniz Municipality Mayor M. Fazýl Türk, TMMOB Board Chair Mehmet Sogancý, CHP Mersin PM Isa Gök
Drawing attention to the large participation from all circles and ages, the protest action passed into history as the most crowded human chain ever made in Mersin and Turkey. Coming together at the city center and main points, thousands held hands and called the AKP government to give up making agreements and policies to turn a heaven into a hell. The musicians enlivened the chain with the songs and marches against nuclear power and the government they sang walking along the chain.
Kürkcü: Mersin protest is a rebellion
Giving his support to the action wearing a t-shirt written “We do not want a nuclear plant”, Kürkcü evaluated the AKP government’s insistence on nuclear plants as a ‘rent’despite all the objections of the Mersin people and all sensitive environmentalists. Kürkcü said the folllowing; “The protest today and here must be taken by the AKP governments as a rebel. The idea of rent seeking via people is very dangerous and fatal. The AKP is acting as if joking with the people while the Fukushima example is still alive”.
Kürkcü continued as follows; “A Prime Minister with a mentality that compares the nuclear with a picnic tube, is trying to rule this country today. It is time all the people of Turkey woke up. The government, which also remains insensitive to the Kurdish rebellion lasting for 30 years now, insists on a governing mentality that makes an attempt on the whole life of the peoples. However, all our people including Turks and Kurds have now woken up. I believe they will give the most beautiful answer to the government on June 12”.
Reading a press statement before thousands of people singing and chanting slogans against nuclear power plants, Mersin Anti-Nuclear Platform Term-Spokeswoman Sabahat Aslan said; “Something different lies behind the insistance of the AKP government on nuclear power plants while the whole world desists from them. We have organized ths protest act to warn the government once more. Despite all attempts, those intending to turn our country to a nuclear waste yard under the name of ‘nuclear power plant installments’ will be taken the wind out of their sails”.
Speaking afterwards, Akdeniz Municipality Mayor M. Fazýl Türk said that they will call the AKP to account, without making benefits available for others.
“AKP, take your hands from Mersin and our lives”, “Tayyip, do not be all greek to Mersin”, “The day will come when the AKP will answer the people for all” were the main slogans chanted by the people in the chain who were also given continuous supports by the horns sounded by the cars passing along the chain.
