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“Some people think that this is an environmental struggle. This is not an environmental matter. It’s about our rights. It’s about our right to live and the right to own property, the right to participate in the government, the right to say no," says a citizen whose olive grove is now designated as a mining area.

The bill facilitating mining activities in olive groves and other rural lands also grants a permit for existing mining sites in Muğla.

While an environmental group supported the decision not to allow a festival in a protected area, it questioned the governor's sincerity, pointing to a hotel and a highway project in other protected areas in the city.