Drawing attention to the receding waters of Lake Wan due to drought, Prof. Dr Faruk Alaeddinoğlu said: "The Lake Van Basin is warming above the global average; this is no longer a seasonal fluctuation, but a permanent climate crisis."
Led by the Democratic Institutions Platform, ecology groups and civil society organizations planted oak and almond saplings in Dorsîn to protest ongoing tree cutting in the area.
Ahead of a rally organized under the slogan “We will not allow plunder and profit; we will win, life will win”, demonstrators in Dêrsim (Tunceli) held a march through the city.
A citizen who attempted to film on-going deforestation in the Gabar region was reportedly threatened by soldiers, who later confiscated the person’s phone and deleted the footage.
In Pasûr (Kulp) district of Amed province, tree slaughter started by village guards and some villagers at the intersection of Eskar and Beyrok neighbourhoods on the slopes of Dorşîn Mountain continues.
The tree cutting that started in Eskar rural neighbourhood of Pasûr extended to Beyrok rural neighbourhood.
The drought in Wan (Van) due to the decrease in rainfall has almost dried up the lakes of Arçak (Erçek) and Sıxke (Sihke), which are called "bird paradise".
The tree slaughter started by the village guards and some neighbourhood guards in the Mezra Xuş area of Eskar neighbourhood on the slopes of Dorsîn Mountain in Pasur (Kulp) district of Amed (Diyarbakır) continues for 20 days.
Housing Development Administration (TOKİ), which started to plunder nature in Qelaçkê and Bûlbûlê regions in İsmetpaşa neighbourhood of Şirnex (Şırnak) centre, is building one thousand 520 houses in the same regions.
The destruction of nature on Gabar Mountain was captured from the air for the first time.
Êlih (Batman) Peace Mothers, who participated in the vigil against the ecocide in Besta, said, "We should have stayed there as long as the trees were being slaughtered" and stated that the action should be continued.
The gold exploration activities of Koza Gold Enterprises in Giyadîn (Diyadin) district of Agirî (Ağrı) have spread over an area of 470 hectares, while the mine poses a great risk to the Murat River.
Cengiz Holding's Eti Bakır Metal Recovery and Integrated Fertiliser Factory, which operates in Mêrdîn's Şemrex (Mazıdağı) district, continues to plunder nature in the region despite the reactions.
Ecologist Cemile Kaçar, who participated in the protests against the destruction of nature in Besta after Ida, said: "We will free nature together."