Locals near a week of resistance against quarry construction in Turkey's Rize

Residents of the Black Sea province of Rize are nearing their first week of resisting a pro-government company's construction of a stone quarry in the İşkencedere Valley. Cengiz Holding entered the valley under a nationwide lockdown on April 23, and locals have been getting around the gendarmerie barricades to prevent their work every day since.

The residents of the Black Sea province of Rize are nearing a week of resisting gendarmerie barricades protecting the construction of a stone quarry by pro-government Cengiz Holding in the İşkencedere Valley.

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