Çukurova Environment Workshop Held

Çukurova Environmental Workshop, organized by Adana Metropolitan Municipality and Eastern Mediterranean Environment Platform, was held at Divan Hotel.

In the workshop; The subjects of “Air pollution, sea-water pollution, chemical pollution-waste management, climate crisis/biodiversity loss, environment-health/food security, environmental struggle and legal framework” were discussed.

Adana Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Mayor Güngör Geçer also attended and made the opening speech of the workshop and in the sessions and panels, Prof. Dr. Ali Kocabas, Prof. Dr. Berkant Odemis, Prof. Dr. Tacettin İnandı, Assoc. Dr. Sedat Gundogdu, Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Karababa, Prof. Dr. Doğanay Tolunay, Prof. Dr. Kayihan Pala, Prof. Dr. İbrahim Ortaç, Bülent Şık, Sadun Bölükbaşı, Feyzullah Korkut, Sinan Can, Deda Büyüköztürk, Güler Bozok, Haydar Şengül, Cavid Işık Yavuz, Haşmet Biçer, Selahattin Menteş, Mahir Füsunoğlu, İsmail Hakkı Atal, Semra Kabasakal, Sabahat Aslan, Nermin Yıldırım Kara and Nilgün Karasu made presentations.

The statement made by the Eastern Mediterranean Environmental Associations regarding the workshop is as follows:

“Our country has also been very affected by the brutal neoliberal policies implemented in the world. Industry, agriculture, city, transportation, energy, mines, natural resources, forests, treasury lands, coasts and streams have turned into rent areas, underground and surface water resources, air and soil have been polluted, environmental problems have been caused by the policies based on rent and dependency on imperialism. has increased. With the nuclear and thermal power plants, cement factories and iron and steel factories that the world has given up, our country is being turned into the industrial garbage dump of the so-called developed countries. Our waters are commercialized with HEPP projects. Our mountains are being destroyed by stone and mines. With GMO and hybrid seeds, our food policy has been completely foreign-dependent. Our agricultural lands have been polluted with agricultural poisons, and the people have been condemned to unsafe food consumption based on imports. These policies have polluted the air, water and soil of our region. We organized this workshop in order to create public opinion about the environmental/ecological problems and solution proposals in our region, to raise awareness at the level of NGOs, local governments and political parties, to contribute to the education of people working in environmental organizations, and to increase the ecological struggle.”