That was the message Greenpeace Mediterranean took to the Turkey’s parliament yesterday interrupting Prime Minister Erdogan as he addressed his AKP party.
Mersin and Sinop are two coastal towns chosen by the Turkish government to be the sites of new nuclear reactors. It’s a measure of how completely unsuccessful successive governments have been in realising their nuclear ambitions that Mersin was first licensed for a nuclear plant in 1976. There’s still no sign of construction starting 34 years later.
One local newspaper is calling our Greenpeace colleague ‘Mersin’s 13th member of parliament’. The town has 12 MPs but it was clear yesterday just who really represents the townspeople’s interests.
– from greenpeace.org