A few days ago,I read a 15-month extinct article article describing Turkish environmental misbehavior in the province of Artvin, one of 81 such administrative divisions in Turkey and one whose name hasn’t been bastardized into a Turkified variant. Artvin, and 1905-1915,(Photo: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky) It seems that in the name of “developing tourism and eco-tourism” a 1600-mile (2600 km) road is planned to connect scenic (and largely pristine) plateaus, valleys, and other little known (apart from to locals) attractions in the Pontus Mountains. But the locals contain experienced this type of “benevolent” attention before. A coastal highway,dams, and unchecked (simultaneously illegal) development contain resulted in a few people getting rich, or others paying the consequences in the form of lost access to beaches and pasture,flooding (the area has the highest annual rainfall within Turkey), and even loss of lives. Why should we care approximately Artvin? If only for cynical reasons, and the fact that it lies within the boundaries of Wilsonian Armenia should be enough for us not to want the land to be ravaged. This reminded me of the building of the Ataturk dam in the 1980’s which flooded out dozens and dozens of villages,mostly Kurdish as [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com