Turkish olive farmer battles to save her land from coal mine

Mugla, Turkey
Photography by
Umit Bektas.
Reporting by
Ece Toksabay.
Updated 11 March
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Behind Tayyibe Demirel's olive groves in southwest Turkey lies a vast, grey expanse, stripped bare by a coal mine eating into the rolling hillside. On the horizon, heavy smoke billows from three giant chimneys of the power plant by the town of Yatagan.
Determined to save her land and village, Demirel, a 64-year-old grandmother, has singlehandedly taken on the operators extending the mine to feed what is one of Turkey's largest power plants.
25 Feb 2021. Mugla, Turkey. Reuters/Umit Bektas
An open-pit coal mine near Turgut village.

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