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The Ovacık Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against 81 people who formed a human chain against the landscaping project that will ruin the Munzur Springs in Turkey’s eastern province of Dersim.

As part of a landscaping project that will zone Munzur Springs in Dersim for construction, earth diggers have entered the area which is a sacred place for the Alevi faith. They have started working despite the objections of citizens and NGOs.

Ovacık District Mayor Mustafa Sarıgül and Munzur Preservation Board member Hasan Şen have spoken to bianet about the “Munzur Springs Recreation Project”: “We will not let any project that is not approved by the people."