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Akbelen Forest resistance: CHP faces protest by locals, gendarmerie assault Green Left MP

Akbelen Forest resistance: CHP faces protest by locals, gendarmerie assault Green Left MP

The two-year-long protest in the southwestern region has been reignited after authorities resumed cutting down trees to expand a coal mine that supplies coal to nearby thermal power plants. The leader and MPs of the main opposition party also faced protests by locals.