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New Protests against Turkey’s Quake-Zone Nuclear Plant

| @mrubin1971 04.18.2011 - 8:10 AM

Protestors formed a nearly 100-mile human chain to protest Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plans to construct a new nuclear plant on the Mediterranean shore line in the middle of an earthquake zone. Erdogan bizarrely embraced plans for the new plant in the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Often, Erdogan digs his heels in when the contract at stake involves his son-in-law’s Celik Holdings, but with Turkey’s media no longer free to report, why Erdogan would push forward so adamantly with a plant that could endanger not only Turkey, but also Syria, Lebanon, and Israel remains unexplained.

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