The Chamber of Environment Engineers (ÇMO) will organize a series of activities at Dikili, a small town in İzmir province in western Turkey, so that the World Environment Day on June 5 will be known as the day of “struggle and warning” for a more livable world.

The activities will start with the announcement of the ÇMO Report on the Situation of Environment on Wednesday June 4 and continue with the Dikili Ecology Festival on Saturday June 7.

June 7

The festival will start with the visit of Dikili mayor Osman Özgüven. Following this, a press release and the “Water is a Right” panel will take place at Dikili square. The panel is dedicated to the solidarity with Dikili mayor Osman Özgüven, who is on trial for the crime of “misconduct in office” for making the water Dikili people drink free of charge. Various panels will follow the first one: “Transformation in Agricultural Policies and its Effect on Local Administrations”,  “Self-sufficiency in Energy and Energy Friendly to the Local Environment”, “Social Local Administration and Consumer Rights”, “Water Services, Privatization and Its Effect on Local Administrative Policies”, “Food, Seed, Right to Bio-security and the Crisis of the Twenty-First Century Cities”. The first day of the festival will end with a movie.

June 8

In the second day of the festival, the “Food, Seed, Water Are Rights, Bio-security Now Campaign” will be introduced and the Corn Balloon Tour slide show will be presented. The festival will end with the 6^th Coordination Meeting of the No Platform To The Genetically Modified Organisms. (EK/EZÖ/TB)