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The Ministry of Energy has answered the Parliamentary question of CHP MP Şahin on the number of mining projects on Ida and Madra Mountains. “Thousands of mining licences have been granted to thousands of hectares of land”, Şahin has said.

Artist Zülfü Livaneli has penned an open letter addressing UNESCO and expressed his concerns over the destruction of trees in Ida Mountains for a gold mine. “They will destroy this beautiful paradise”, Livaneli has warned.

A local administrator in Çanakkale province filed an official compliant claiming that a gold drill in the Ida mountain region polluted neighboring rivers and killed water frogs.