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The project has commenced without an environmental assessment report.

The project that has been underway since 2018 is threatening life in Sortkin Stream and the flora, the court has concluded.

Locals have opposed the projects, statting that if the HEPs were built, residential areas would be submerged in the water.

Videos from Kastamonu, the hardest-hit province, show that the water level rose so much that the first floors of buildings were flooded.

The 6th Chamber of the Council of State has rejected the power company’s appeal against the ruling of stay of execution given for the hydroelectric power plant planned to be built in Loç Valley in Cide, Kastamonu.

“How is such an irony, such foolishness even possible? The MNG company has destroyed the valley on the right side. They have now declared it a national park,” says Erdoğan Güler, the Spokesperson for the Arhavi Nature Conservation Platform.