Nine workers remain trapped under the soil.
Families are devastated… Hopes are fading by the minute.
A mass of soil the size of 600 football fields…
In the words of CHP’s Deniz Yavuzyılmaz, ‘if you call it soil, it’s not soil; if you call it water, it’s not water…’
Because the shifted soil has undergone cyanide processing, it has turned into a massive swamp that acts like fine sand, ready to swallow anyone who walks on it!
Conducting search and rescue operations in this disaster requires specialized equipment, experience, and intelligence…
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The disaster in İliç, Erzincan, was a tragedy that screamed ‘I am coming!’
A mine that should never have been opened led to a disaster that should never have happened, following permits that should never have been approved…
In other words, if we receive that bad news about the workers that we dread to think of, the headlines will once again read ‘not an accident, but murder’!
Just as they did in previous mining disasters!
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Turkey is the country with the highest loss of life in mining production globally…
The deadly consequences of primitivism and poor management…
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It is impossible for the Canadian company to carry out this brutal cyanide production in its own homeland!
But by taking the AKP-affiliated Çalık Group as a partner, it achieved the impossible… It created something out of nothing, ignoring environmental impact assessment (EIA) reports, science, and conscience alike...
The stones of this apocalypse were laid in plain sight of everyone…
What kind of logic can explain building cyanide-filled pools 1 km away from the Euphrates River, on fault lines that are ‘dead’ according to reports but active according to science?
That Euphrates River, on which the Keban Dam is built…
It flows through Erzincan, Sivas, Tunceli, Elazığ, Malatya, Diyarbakır, Adıyaman, Gaziantep, and Şanlıurfa, then into Syria, and from there to Iraq… It joins the Tigris River to form the Shatt al-Arab, the great river, and empties into the Persian Gulf.
You are searching for minerals at the source of humanity’s lifeblood with the deadliest poison in the universe, creating ponds full of cyanide!
The AKP is the organized form of this disaster in politics. The AKP’s greed for rent is like cyanide spread across the country.
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Many journalists, including myself, brought the mine in İliç to the agenda. Scientists warned, environmental organizations cried out, and the opposition sparked debates in parliament.
In 2022, Mother Earth, turning into a desert, gave a final warning and shed her poisonous tears… 80 kilograms of cyanide mixed into the Euphrates!
The public rose up, and the mine was temporarily closed.
Then the same dirty hands that were complicit in the betrayal stepped in… The mine was reopened and practically rewarded by receiving a capacity increase permit!
The country’s Minister of Environment and Urbanization at the time - Murat Kurum - was the one who signed off on this nightmare scenario, leaving nothing more to be said!
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We are praying for our 9 souls with our hearts in our mouths.
We do not expect those who desertify life and dry up existence to answer the question, ‘money or nature?’
The entire AKP management cadre is responsible for the order they have corrupted and the law they have murdered.
When they look back one day at the death pits across the country, including the one in İliç, they will see their own reflections.
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