Five children, 90-year-old among 20 detained at Turkish mining protest

Turkish gendarmes detained some 20 people, including five 14-year-old teenagers and a 90-year-old woman, on Wednesday after local residents blocked heavy machinery from entering a mining exploration site in northern Turkey’s Black Sea highlands, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. Residents had gathered at the Turnalık highland pasture in northeastern Ordu province after learning that Taşyapı, the […] The post Five children, 90-year-old among 20 detained at Turkish mining protest appeared first on...

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