'The threats continue​’: murder of retired couple chills fellow activists in Turkey
by Jonathan Watts from on (#35BRF)
The killing of two activists who successfully campaigned to shut down a mine has shocked environmentalists in Turkey who fear their deaths will embolden others to kill to protect their profits
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Cedar branches whisper in the Anatolian breeze. Twigs crunch underfoot. A truck rumbles from a distant marble quarry. The crack of a hunter's rifle echoes through the forest.
The sounds of tranquility and violence intermingle at the remote hillside home of Aysin and Ali Bi1/4yi1/4knohutiu, the Turkish beekeepers and environmental defenders whose murder in Finike earlier this year has sent a chill through the country's conservation movement.
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