CIVICUS discusses the challenges of environmental activism in Turkey with Süheyla Doğan, activist and president of the Kazdağı Association for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage.
On 3 September in Artvin province, a logging company employee fired on villagers as they protested against a logging project, killing one and injuring two. The villagers were trying to stop the construction of a development that was presented as a recreational area, but which they believed would become a quarry. The attack was part of a wider pattern of violence against Turkish environmental activists.
