Stating that the warnings of experts in Licik district were not taken into account, Hüseyin Alan, Chair of the Chamber of Geological Engineers, said that if the necessary precautions are not taken, an environmental disaster that will last for years will occur with the pollution of water, soil and air.
According to PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who sees the understanding of power under the global ecological crisis, "As power is overcome in society, ecological consciousness will develop and as ecological consciousness develops, government will be excluded from society." Ecologist Koray Türkay said that the fear about Ocalan, whom he cited as one of the most important analysts of the idea that shattered capitalist modernity, stems from "the embrace of this idea by humanity."
Hatice İnal, who makes her living by making coffee with the kezwan she collects at the foothills of Cûdî and Gabar Mountains, said: “Our business has slowed down due to tree cutting. Because kezwan trees are also being cut down.”
Citizens who condemned the destruction of nature with dynamite in the Cûdî Mountain region for the mines of AKP member Süleyman Bölünmez, demanded that the work in question be stopped as soon as possible.
Dynamite exploded around the quarry established for the construction of military towers and new roads on Cûdî Mountain is causing ecological destruction.
Botan geography is being plundered by dams built for "security" reasons, forests cut down and mining companies. Şirnex Ecology Movement Co-Spokesperson Adnan Şenbayram said: "While Kurdistan is being depopulated, the memory of people is also lost."
Drawing attention that the ecology was destroyed in Turkey's attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria, Keziyên Kesk Initiative Spokesperson Zîwer Şêxo said: "We would plant 4 million saplings against the attacks."
Ecologist Hüseyin Akil warned that the HEPP planned to be built on Zorê Stream will cause a great natural disasters.
Stating that the ecology movements will be in Cizîr tomorrow against the plunder of nature, HDP Co-Chair Naci Sönmez said: "There is no salvation from Akbelen to Cudi alone."
Hundreds of hazelnut and fruit trees were uprooted with scoops in the village of Xûlepûr, where curfew was declared in Xîzan district of Bedlis.
Ecologists who will participate in the Cudi Rally said, "Let's stop this rent and massacre. Every person who participates will save a tree."
HDP Ecology Commission declared that Turkey has become a water-poor country underlined the need for revision of water policy in a written statement published regarding the World Water Day.
Erkan Demir, Head of Geological Engineers Mersin Branch, who stated that there is no audit in Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant under construction, said that the work is being done in a manner of a constrcutor, not an engineer.
Deputy Mayor of Çanakkale Municipality İrfan Mutluay, who participated in the ongoing watch action in the foothills of Kaz Mountains, said that they had opened a case for retrial after having identified the expert's forging signature.
Tens of thousands participated in the big gathering of the “Water and Conscience Watch" which was initiated against the gold mine that was intended to be established in Kaz Mountains. Despite the gendarmerie blocking the mass, the people managed to get into the construction site where hundreds of trees were cut.