We will not give Anatolia to energy cartels, to finance giants and to multinational corporations!

Our struggle continues while the 17th Energy and Environment Fair and Conference is lotting and selling Anatolia. There is a new initiative who has left no untracked territory in Anatolia since April 2011, who gives a voice to the problems faced by the real owners of Anatolia, and who questions the environmental policies lacking foresight. We have marched towards Ankara from seven different points. In Glba -district of Ankara-, we have met the respondents of our demands. We resisted first in Glba, later in Ankara, we are still resisting. Since the day we started our resistance, we have protested loudly that we will not give our soil, our water, our mountains, our valleys, our creeks, our seas and our forests. The response we had from the authorities was that, we -in other words, the people of Anatolia- are not the owners of the water, the mountains and valleys of Anatolia. The Energy and Natural Resources Minister of the 60th government, Mr. Taner Yldz has confirmed the legitimacy of our struggle with his own words: They shout loudly that they are not giving Anatolia. I wonder who you think you are not to give Anatolia! These words shows a deep distortion of perception. According to his opinion, the public authorities elected by the people of Anatolia take hold of the possession of all natural resources in Anatolia at the same time. The Great March of Anatolia was not permitted to access Ankara with the reason of blocking the traffic in the city. We have been taken into custody via arbitrary procedures. Metin Lokumcu, whose only intention was to draw attention in the slaying of nature in Anatolia, has been killed. The young worker, Nuhbey Bozdoan, aged 23, has lost his life during a controlled (!) dynamite explosion for the construction of an HES (Hydroelectric Power Plant) in spir, Erzurum. The people of Ktahya praise everyday they live under the permanent threat of cyanide. Under these circumstances, the whole Anatolia continues to be marketed to energy cartels, to finance giants and to multinational corporations. Anatolia, with its people, is being sentenced to death with accompany of glamorous ceremonies, fake smiles and liar applauses. Within the agenda of the 17th Energy and Environment Fair and Conference, several public institutions such as the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources; the Ministry of Environment and Forests as well as EPDK (The Board of Arrangement for Energy Market) are getting together with multinational companies, energy and construction cartels of Turkey, HES institutions and the banking sector. They are determining the new HES facilities, nuclear power plants to be built, the new mines to be dug, the new forests and creeks to be privatized. This organization does not even consider showing a low profile in its aims and continues to host Mutual Business Meetings in order to bring Turkish companies together with multinational corporations which will result in widening the destruction of nature undoubtedly. The topics defined under the title of preserving the environment only serves to sustain the exploitation of the nature. Despite all obstacles, we, as the We Will Not Give Anatolia will continue our duty and repeat our necessary warnings: 1. Current patterns of production and consumption are the leading obstacles against the sustainability of the nature.

2. In this context, precautions such as recycling, emission trade, energy savings and alternative energy forms are not functioning and they serve to disorientation of the public opinion. The only way of preserving the environment is to abandon the forms of production and consumption which have no boundaries currently. 3. Nuclear energy is not something like LPG cylinder. It has severe, acute and irreversible results which cause the end of all life forms in its surrounding area. The only way of using nuclear energy safely is not to build any nuclear power plants at all. In addition to all these threats, the energy produced by nuclear plants will increase the consumption of energy and fasten the waste of all nature resources. 4. HES projects which threaten the whole ecosystem, the traditional patterns of production and living, and the cultural and historical richness of Anatolia; as well as all mining activities; privatization of forests; investments in nuclear and thermic energy and unplanned logistics should all be terminated immediately. In our last words, we want to declare the name and the winner of a new category which has been somehow forgotten in the Energy Oscars, as to be awarded in Turkey for the first time in frame of the 17th Energy and Environment Fair and Conference. We want to declare this category and its winner which has been refrained by the organizers of the event: Energy Oscar in The Best Neoliberal Collaborator goes undoubtedly to Mr. Taner Yldz, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. His courtesy may receive his award from the new urban poor who was forced to evacuate his village due to the flooding of his territory via HES projects; or from the forest villagers who cannot find any wood for fuel in the recently privatized forests; or from the farmers whose crops have been left in the fields due to imported GMOs (genetically modified organisms); or from the people of Anatolia who cannot stop the cyanide mining activities in their regions despite lots of court decisions against such activities. We want to declare this to the real owners of Anatolia and to the public opinion. We will not give Anatolia! The Marchers of Anatolia