DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan spoke at an ecology rally in Giyadîn (Diyadin), Northern Kurdistan, held against cyanide-based gold mining projects.

“We will never leave our lands to those who want to poison our soil just to take a piece of gold and leave.”

“The real peace is peace with the land. It is peace with the Kurds’ water, mountains, plains and the people and living beings on them.”

“Take your hands off our pastures, our water and our lands.”

“Mr. Abdullah Öcalan and I had a four-hour meeting. One of his most important agendas, alongside language, identity and equal citizenship, was ecology.”

“In Şırnak, Gabar, Besta and Cudi, they have left almost no trees. In Bitlis and Bingöl, they are trying to hand almost every mountain, flowing water and plain over to mining companies.”

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