We do not destroy our olives.

In Toparlar village of Muğla Köyceğiz, the olive groves where the villagers have been working for 50 years are opened for rent by TOKİ. The villagers said, “What will happen to our all-year-old labor? What will we be? We do not cut our olives,” he says.
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We do not destroy our olives.

Aycan MONTENEGRO

A land of approximately 1 million 106 thousand square meters, owned by the Treasury, in the village of Toparlar, in the Köyceğiz district of Muğla, has been transferred to the Housing Development Administration (TOKİ). TOKİ, which took over the land that the villagers have been cultivating, growing olives and earning for 50 years by paying their taxes and taxes, with the aim of ‘producing cheap housing’, has put a part of this land up for sale through an auction. The villagers did not even know about the tenders held in Ankara and Istanbul. The villagers learned from the advertisements posted in the municipality that the lands were sold.

Speaking to BirGün, the villagers are against the sale of the olive groves and citrus orchards they have been working on for years. The villagers, who say that the tenders are held in Ankara and Istanbul and that they do not have the opportunity to pay the determined tender prices, draw attention to the fact that there is a large rent in the region. The villagers want the decision to be withdrawn.

THEY WILL TURN INTO HELL

Hayri Kıy, one of the villagers, learned from the advertisements posted in the municipality that the land he had been cultivating for years was put up for sale. Stating that he has been farming on this land for fifty years, Kıy said, “We are left without an owner. …

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