'We have become guardians': Turkey's accidental forest protectors

Birhan Erkutlu and TuAba Gi1/4nal wanted to 'get away from it all' but are now leading a campaign to protect rivers and trees from hydropower plants

Birhan Erkutlu and TuAba Gi1/4nal moved into the forests of Antalya to get away from it all. They wanted a natural, peaceful life free of capitalism, consumer culture, social media, the internet, even electricity. Fate had other plans.

Fourteen years on, the two artists are now figureheads of a campaign to protect rivers and trees from a cascade of hydropower plants. Their tweets and Facebook posts attract hundreds of thousands of followers. They use drones to expose wrongdoing. And they have overcome threats, warning shots and a hostile political culture to lobby successfully for the creation of a new protected area.