ECO-TURKEY

Second nuclear after Akkuyu?
Sinop resists!

At the June meeting of the Sinop Municipal Council, a decision was taken against the nuclear power plant planned to be built in Sinop.

At the Sinop Municipal Council meeting held on June 4th, the question of building a second nuclear power plant in Sinop was discussed. At the end of the meeting, it was decided to demand "the abandonment of the construction of the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant". At the same time, the Sinop City Council decided to support the "International Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons", which Turkey has refused to join.

Sinop does not want nuclear

On July 22, at the memorial ceremony traditionally organized by the Sinop Anti-Nuclear Platform for the three young people who died as a result of an accident at the "No to Nuclear - 2006" rally, it was once again stated with banners, slogans and speeches that the people of Sinop "will not allow the establishment of a nuclear power plant in their province"
(News source: Green Newspaper)

What happened in the past?

In 2006, Sinop, where the government gave an address to the nuclear power plant, hosted a well-attended rally. At the rally held in Uğur Mumcu Square, environmentalists and nuclear opponents, who decorated the city with posters, came together. In addition to the Sinop Anti-Nuclear Platform, anti-nuclear activists from various provinces of Turkey also supported the people of Sinop. The campaign that followed the rally collected more than 25,000 signatures.
(News source: Anayurt, April 30, 2006)

In April 2015, the Turkish Grand National Assembly adopted an international agreement under which Japan would build a second nuclear power plant in Sinop.

Also in April 2015, tens of thousands of people: residents of Sinop, citizens from different provinces, representatives of non- governmental organizations participated in the rally organized by the Sinop Anti-Nuclear Platform on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. They protested against both nuclear power plants planned to be built in Akkuyu and Sinop.
(News source: Gerze's voice, April 25, 2015)

Sinop 2015 rally - in memory of Chernobyl

In 2017, with the call of the Anti-Nuclear Platform, life defenders marched with the slogan "Sinop does not want a nuclear power plant". A mass march in which non-governmental organizations from all over Turkey were represented met in front of the statue of "Diogenes of Sinop" and marched to the area named after the murdered journalist Uğur Mumcu.
(News source: Civil Society Development Center)

From the press release of the ANP Executive Board

"In December 2019, the Review and Evaluation Commission of the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant project held an information meeting for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report in Ankara. Some of the Anti-Nuclear Platform (ANP) representatives were not allowed into the meeting hall. We, ANP members, do not accept an EIA meeting that does not take into account the opinions of the surrounding people as legitimate. We, the ANP components, declare: We will not allow you to build a nuclear power plant in our country, neither in Sinop, nor in Mersin, nor in İğneada...

In the past, February 2018 in Sinop allso a Public Information Meeting was held to introduce the EIA report of the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant project. And despite all our objections, the people of Sinop were not allowed into the meeting. Security forces set up barriers around the conference hall so that the public could not enter the hall where the information meeting would be held. They prevented the people from approaching. When we, who were not allowed into the hall, came to the Sinop Governorship to explain the situation and submit a petition, we were greeted with tear gas, TOMAs and night sticks. This is how this one-sided report was prepared..."
(News source:ESM, December 10, 2019)