BALIKESİR - 68-year-old Asiye Kreşir, from Keçihanlı village of Çanakkale who have been camping in Kaz Dağları with the Water and Conscience Watch for 21 days, said: "Kaz Mountains are our lungs, we have to protect it."

 

 

68-year-old Asiye Kreşir, who came from Keçihanlı village to react to the carnage of the trees for a gold mine to be done by Canadian company Alamos Gold's subcontractor Biga Mining Company, is camping  with the protesters since Kuly 26. Kreşir calling on the all walks of life, said: "Kaz Mountains are our lungs, we have to protect it."

 

 

Kervir said that instead of providing a rent over the mountains, factories should be established in other places and that they did not want their nature to be destroyed for profit.Underlining the necessity of not destroying the vital and livelihoods of the people living here without polluting the nature, Kresir continued: "Wherever you look, there is Wind Power Plant (RES) and Geothermal Power Plant (JES). When I came to the village as a new bride, we used plant a tomato in the village, it would become a thousand tomatoes, and now you plant a tomato, it gives full fruit, it dies due to air pollution. All this was done without taking any precautions, the people were not informed enough about the mining operations in the Kaz Mountains, if the exploration took place, we will leave behing a huge desert for the next generations.I am against the extinction of nature. There is gold in Canada, why don't they take it out there? Let them go search gold in America. I will continue this action until the last drop of my blood."