Women Protest Construction in Their Meadow with Scythes, Rakes

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Women in İnköy Neighborhood in Kütahya have protested the museum, planned to be built in their meadows, where they graze their animals, with clubs, axes, scythes and rakes. The Kütahya-Eskişehir highway has been closed to traffic.

According to a report by Oğuzhan Kılıç from the DHA, as many as 300 women closed the Kütahya-Eskişehir highway to traffic for an hour with around 2,000 bovines with them. An 8-km motorcade was formed due to the highway being closed to traffic.

As women said that they won’t leave the highway if governor and mayor don’t come, both the governor and mayor came to the scene and asked the women to come to the governorship to discuss solution.

Museum construction in the meadow

Women came to the place called İnköy Meadow in which the construction of archeological museum started demanded that the construction be halted.

Stating that they have been grazing the animals for years in that meadow of the village, the women said they won’t open the highway to traffic before the governor and mayor come.

As a large number of police were deployed to the scene, Kütahya Security Director Hasan Çevik came as well. The women reiterated that they won’t leave the scene before the governor comes.

Later on, Kütahya Governor Ahmet Hamdi Nayir and Mayor Kamil Saraçoğlu came to the scene. Nayir asked the women to come to the governorship to discuss the matter. Upon that, the women opened the way to traffic. (ÇT/TK)

* Photos: Oğuzhan Kılıç – Kütahya / DHA