Since 1989, multinational mining companies have been coming to Turkey to extract gold using the cyanide filtration method. Eurogold is one of these companies and its mines are in Bergama. Bergama residents and the people of surrounding villages began to oppose the project.
Tuzla cemetery overlooks the Tuzla shipyards. Now start walking down the cemetery slope. On your left is the military zone, green and devoid of humans. Then all of a sudden you see nothing but concrete blocks of flats. The workers leave their homes around seven in the morning to work "outside".
At one end of the chain there are the popular blue jeans while on the other end in unregistered workshops, there are the bodies of people who contracted mortal lung diseases. Group of former sandblasting workers, lawyers, doctors, artists and activists came together to stop this deadly practice.
