Mugla, Turkey Photography by Umit Bektas. Reporting by Ece Toksabay.
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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.