Wednesday, April 6, 2011

TURKEY - Prime Minister, wake up!

Hasan Cemal, a famous columnist of the liberal daily Milliyet, said today its total rejection of nuclear as he had never stated his views on the matter. "I appeal to the Prime Minister to desist forthwith to the proposed nuclear plant in Akkuyu," he wrote. I even think that after what happened in Japan, could persist in this way amount to a crime against humanity.

Nuclear power is not essential. It is neither cheap nor safe. For years we have been told anything about this. " Sahin Alpay, in the moderate Islamic Zaman newspaper, go to the same effect. "Because of intense lobbying in favor of nuclear power, an overwhelming majority of the Turkish public is ignorant of the risks inherent in this energy.

He has done that gobble power plants were a symbol of modernity. It probably why the Prime Minister think that his attitude towards the atom it will win votes. But, in doing so, he commits may be a mistake. Zaman readers know that I have no hesitation congratulate AKP [the moderate Islamic party in power] for its economic performance and in favor of more democracy.

However, it must be said that the insensitivity of the government vis-à-vis the environment, in particular its attitude to nuclear power, is a black spot on its balance sheet. "" Certainly, not all days that a quake of such magnitude, followed by a tsunami occurs, but what happens in Japan obliges everyone to retreat on nuclear energy.

From this perspective, Turkey is in many respects very concerned. Indeed, what will happen tomorrow if a nuclear disaster occurs in a country like Iran, which is also characterized by high seismic activity? Will we be able to protect us if an earthquake occurs in Armenia, where the construction of a second nuclear plant is planned? In a little while Turkey will start building its first nuclear power plant.

According to Prime Minister Erdogan, to the extent that there is no risk, no question of abandoning nuclear energy. Everyone is aware that environmental issues are not taken very seriously in Turkey, especially by the AKP. The degradation of natural, cultural and historical and is considered secondary by the AKP government.

In these circumstances, do we have no right to demand that the Prime Minister to show greater sensitivity towards nuclear power? "Wrote Soli Özel Habertürk in the tabloid. In the nationalist daily Hürriyet, Yalçin Dogan made him, noted that the central Akkuyu is located 25 kilometers from the fault of Ecemis and a Russian company won the contract for its construction without tender .

"The prime minister said there was no investment without risk, without which even the city gas or bottled water should be abandoned," he writes. It thus compares the damage caused by a gas cylinder, that can affect some people, radioactive leaks affecting millions of people and whose effects will be felt for generations! Is there someone to explain to Recep Tayyip Erdogan the dramatic consequences of radioactive leaks? "

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