Go and live in the forest, Turkish PM tells environmental activists

By artappraiser on Wed, 09/18/2013 - 10:51pm |

Hurriyet Daily News in Ankara, Sept. 18, 2013

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has strongly criticized environmental activists opposing the construction of a road through Ankara's Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) forested campus, advising them to go and live in forests if they did not want roads to be built.

“I noticed a placard today. ‘We want forests, not roads.’ Can something like that be? There are so many forests. You can’t get to your university if you have no roads. But if you want, we can send you to the forest. Go and live in forests,” Erdoğan said, in an address to his Justice and Development Party (AKP) provincial mayors on Sept. 18 [....]

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