Turkey: Bergama Residents Win Golden Victory
Published by MAC on 2006-04-22
Turkey: Bergama Residents Win Golden Victory
22nd April 2006
In a resounding vindication for the people of Bergama, the Turkish Council of State has annulled a Cabinet decree allowing cyanide to be used to extract gold in their town. And only days earlier, the European Court of Human Rights sentenced Turkey to pay a fine of 945,000 euro in a lawsuit filed by citizens living in Bergama and the surrounding villages, ruling that there had been a violation of Article 8 (right to respect to private and family life) and Article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights.