Artık ne kuş uçuyor, ne kervan geçiyor: Gölmarmara nasıl öldürüldü?

Video news: Ufuk ÇERİ * Lake Marmara, an alluvial dam located between the borders of the Salihli and Gölmarmara districts of Manisa, is no longer there. The 44.5-square-kilometer lake has dried up, been drained, and turned into a field. The lake's main source of water was held in the Gördes Dam, built by the State Hydraulic Works (DSİ). The Ahmetli Regulator, built to feed the lake and intended to feed it, has been depleted, leaving the lake dry. We followed the lives most directly affected by the drying lake. One resident describes the impact of the lake's disappearance from the map, which was also the subject of the first climate lawsuit, on his own life: "Every time I see it, I feel a pang of pain. Because the lake has become nothing but dirt. It feels like a desert to me. My fishing life is over. I'm sad." As we wandered around the lake's now-defunct borders, a crucial climate lawsuit concerning the drying up of Lake Marmara, a first for Turkey, was concluded. Despite the end of fishing activity in the drying up lake, the Manisa Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry had demanded rent from the fishing cooperative and sent them a payment order. Altiparmak Law Firm, representing the cooperative, filed Turkey's first climate lawsuit with the Manisa Administrative Court. The court recently ruled that the fishing cooperative could not be held liable for the rent debt. A lake erased, pursuits and livelihoods erased... Meanwhile, residents we spoke with in the region described their hopes shattered by the drying up of the lake. Full text: https://yesilgazete.org/artik-ne-kus-...