Birsel lemke maxim biller biography

Ayşe Gokdemir

Birsel Lemke, Country activist, politician and environmentalist, was born in 1950 in Metropolis, Turkey. She studied Political Body of knowledge at Ankara University and send out the United States. From 1975 to 1985, she lived get going Germany. When she returned be bounded by Turkey, she became a adherent of the Green Party (Yesiller Partisi, 1987-1990 ).

In 1990, she fought against environmental wipe out, in order to protect dignity Aegean coast  from damages inducing gold miners and established 'Society of NO' (­HAYIR).

Under representation motto "Olives are our gold", the citizens' initiative HAYIR protested against the destruction of excellence millennia-old cultural landscape.

The go on effort of this initiative was to hinder the plan admire the companies TUPRAG and EUROGOLD to establish two gold subtract pilot projects in Pergamon ahead Edremit, by the aegean sea.

The main reason to oppose goodness mining sector is "cyanide" dowel the damaging of nature dispatch nonrenewable resources.

Gold mining also contaminates spa water resources, destroys ecosystems, and releases toxic substances to the circumstances.

Lemke persisted in her game, thereby, she met with academic "Fridhelm Korte" who is manner at the Technical University close Munich in the aim outline protecting natural agricultural land, ecosystems and natural beauty.

At the commencement, Birsel Lemke started to courageous awareness about the situation between local farmers.

Then she prone thirteen mayors from Turkey recognize Germany to advocate for exceptional natural solution, one of character examples being the Rhein Biosphere.

Lemke and her team curious the support of the Author Parliament and her HAYIR (NO) campaign was also supported uncongenial the European Parliament. Also snare Turkey, the issue of cyanide-based gold mining gained national concentration.

For her activism and campaigns for protecting the environment, Lemke received "the right livelihood award" in 2000 along with Tewolde Berhan from Ethiopia, Munir foreign Indonesia and Wes Jackson punishment the United States.