İzmir Metropolitan Municipality has started a campaign to cover the wounds of one of the biggest fires in İzmir.

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerThousands of people from Izmir flocked to the Izmir Meeting, which was held in the burned area of ​​Menderes Efemçukuru, to see the disaster on the spot and to take the necessary decisions together.

The people of Izmir came together to bind up the wounds of the fire, which started in Karabağlar on Sunday, August 18th, then spread to Menderes and Seferihisar and affected a forest area of ​​5 thousand hectares. Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerThe fourth of the İzmir Meetings, where 'Izmir Gatherings invited all the people of Izmir by saying "Come, see, protect" both to see the disaster on the spot and to ensure the participation of the people in the decisions to be taken, was held in Menderes Efemçukuru Devedüzü Locality with the title "Forest İzmir".

Izmir will be born from the ashes

Thousands of people who were not silent to the invitation of President Soyer, "Izmir will be born from the ashes", "Ash in our forests will grow again", "We came, we saw, we will protect," he flocked to the event in the burning area. CHP Deputy Chairman Responsible for Nature Rights Gülizar Biçer Karaca, Izmir deputies, mayors, İzmir Bar Association, muhtars, professional chambers, non-governmental organizations and citizens showed great interest in Izmir Gathering during the Gezi Park protests, the mother of Ali Ismail Korkmaz Emel and his father Şahap Korkmaz, Deniz Gezmiş's older brother Bora Gezmiş also joined. Representatives of the Chamber of Surveying and Cadastre Engineers who entered the field by singing the song ın Believe in Children aç opened the banner saying ız We will be born from our ashes, we will write a new story ”.

We claim the cherished memory of our ancestors

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, who made the opening speech of the "Forest Izmir" meeting Tunç Soyer, thanking all the people of Izmir who participated in the mobilization, “We said, 'Come, see, protect'. You came, you saw, our belief that we will protect it has been strengthened. Today is August 30. Our ancestors gave their lives without hesitation so that we could live in peace in these fertile and beautiful lands and recorded this day in history as an unforgettable victory. I greet you with love for protecting their cherished memory and for coming together to protect these lands today. Today, we will make a very meaningful start for Izmir and Turkey," he said.

We did not come together to comfort our conscience

Mayor Soyer underlined that they experienced a great disaster with the fire. “The burning area is called 500 hectare, but we know that 5 burned more than a thousand hectares. We will do our best to protect this area. We're never gonna get a square meter of zoning. We will stand before them like a steel armor. We will finalize all the suggestions and ideas of our citizens at the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality council meeting. The Izmir Metropolitan Municipality council is the most competent elected decision-making body of Izmir. Our mobilization is not a whim. 'Let's plant a tree conscience relax' he did not come together. Here we will decide how to protect İzmir forests, how to protect the burning areas and what we will do to avoid such disasters. Our conscience will relax by not only planting a sapling, but by cooperating with the unity and strength of this land. Because only in this way can we leave a future for our children and grandchildren to be proud of. U

No politics of the forest

Mayor Soyer continued his speech as follows: ız Our forests are the common value of all of us. Our Ministry of Forestry, our Governor, by protecting the forests from Izmir to Izmir, working together with other public institutions and organizations will give a good lesson to all of Turkey. We will hold these lands together, hand in hand. I am proud to be from Izmir. He knows how to be born from the ashes of Izmir ”.
CHP Vice President Responsible for Nature Rights Gülizar Biçer Karaca made a short speech and said, görmek It was a hope for all of us to see this sacrifice in İzmir for the rights of our nature. The first ash rising from Izmir in Turkey will be hoping all together, "he said.
Özkan Yücel, the President of Izmir Bar Association, said that if they need to be asked to account for those who burn the areas deliberately or neglected, they will have two hands on their sides.

Experts spoke

After President Soyer's speech, experts on the subject made an informative presentation to the citizens. Chamber of Agricultural Engineers Tevfik Türk reminded that the ecosystem was severely damaged by the fire and that these areas should be checked for protection from mines and different land uses instead of planting saplings.

Izmir Chamber of Forest Engineers President Sabahattin Bilge, said that by the end of February, the fire area should be cleaned from the burning trees. Istanbul University Faculty of Forestry Professor. Doğanay Tolunay is the 169 of the Constitution of the burning forest areas. recalling that it is obligatory to recycle into the forest, “As soon as the burnt dried trees need to be cleaned from the area. The process is accelerated if the Metropolitan Municipality supports these works with the necessary equipment and tools. There is no need to plant trees again, or do afforestation campaigns here. If we use the seeds of old trees, a spontaneous forest is formed here. The best solution is to leave nature to itself. What we have to do is to prevent the fire. Our municipality can make public awareness activities. Helicopters and airplanes are important when the first fire breaks out, but what is important to extinguish the fire is intervention from the ground. The municipality and the ministry can cooperate on this issue. ”

Mayor Soyer shared details of the campaign

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerAfter the speeches of the experts, he listened to the citizens and children one by one. While some citizens expressed their feelings in tears, a girl named Doğa, a kindergarten student of İZELMAN, asked President Soyer to plant a sapling for each child. Providing information about the campaign that will be held in İzmir by the speeches of the citizens, Metropolitan Mayor Soyer said: “We have determined an area of ​​​​3 thousand 800 hectares in our city that we can plant. We will make a request from the relevant institutions to turn these places into forests. We are a candidate to be the green capital of Europe in 2020. We will include our work in the strategic plan. By coordinating the beautiful works to be done in İzmir, we will prevent it from turning into a grain of sand in the desert. We are starting a donation campaign with a concert we will organize on September 9th. Our artists will not earn any income from this concert. Izmir residents will be able to watch the concert by donating 10 liras. We will make a decision to organize a donation campaign in our assembly. After taking the decision, we will send it to the Governor's approval. On September 9, we will put a map of the lands where we will plant trees in the area where the concert will be held. Whoever wants to plant a tree will be able to donate. Again, with the donations made, we will build water pools in the forests where helicopters will receive water. We will set up fire stations in our villages. We will enable our children to see the fire place and turn an area affected by the fire into an open-air museum. We will establish a forest school and provide forest volunteer training. We will compensate our 278 producers, whose agricultural land was affected by the fire, by taking a decision at the council meeting to be held on September 9th. We will plant a sapling for every child born. The people of Izmir will grow with their trees”.
After the İzmir Gathering, world-famous pianist Gülsin Onay gave a short concert. After the concert, the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Council convened with an extraordinary agenda.

Some suggestions and thoughts on the agenda of “Ormanİzmir Meeting::

Fon The funds created should be used for pre-fire training activities. Establish a unit for the development of forest engineering in the municipality ”.

“Burn areas to be the absolute protection zone. The mining council in the region should be banned by a decision meclis.

Yağmur Establish rainwater basin in forest areas ”.

Kent Urban gardens should be established in the city and greening work should be done ”.

Yerel Establish local fire departments in fire-sensitive areas ”.

İzmir Let Izmir Forest Week be held in April ”.

Yer Make a place for the volunteers who want to work voluntarily in the field of fire and set up a voluntary organization ”.
R Let the painters paint on the burning trees and support the donation campaign by selling them ”.

Beslenme Nutritional support should be given to the rapid growth of the living organisms in the burning forest area ”.

Karşıyaka burned area on a forest the size of the county

According to the calculations made by the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of Agricultural Engineers based on satellite data obtained from the area after the fire, a three-day fire affected a 5 thousand hectare forest area. 5 thousand 3 of the thousand hectares area is in heavy burn class. In the remaining area of ​​approximately 500 hectares, there is secondary combustion. The length of the fire line from north to south is calculated as 1500 kilometers. This calculation is approximate. Karşıyaka means that a large area (5 thousand 110 hectares) burned up the district.
A comparison with the districts to understand the size of the burned forest area is that Balçova (2 thousand 125 hectares) of forest loss, Bayraklı (3 thousand 426 hectares) and Narlıdere (4 thousand 461 hectares) showed that the districts are more than the surface area. As a result of the disaster, about two Balçova districts or Karşıyaka It turned out that a forest the size of the area burned.

9 Solidarity concert in September

A solidarity concert will be held in İzmir for the protection of forests in 9 September. Haluk Levent, Halil Sezai, Gripin, Niyazi Koyuncu, Hayko Cepkin, Oğuzhan Uğur, Anıl Piyancı, Serap Yağız and Gazapizm will participate in the forest concert. The income from the entrance fees of the concert, which will start at 18.30 at Kültürpark, will be used for the protection of İzmir forests.

Came with wheelchair

Gündüz Koçak, aged 67, who participated in the event with his wheelchair, stated that he found this campaign of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality very positive and said, ken Everywhere had been ash. We still smell the ash. But Izmir will be reborn from the ashes. Our forests with ash will be green with the saplings we plant. ”

We are ready to work

Thursday Evening Cyclists came to Efemçukuru Devedüzü Mevkii by bicycle. Billur Dulkadir said that they came from Menderes to support the campaign with a challenging track and said, yang We used this track before the fire and came to this area by watching the lush nature. I'm so sorry I cried when I saw the burning trees. But we're not giving up. We came here again with the call of our Izmir Metropolitan Mayor. If necessary, working as a worker in the burning areas, maybe our children can not see, but we are ready to flourish our burning forests for their children. It is our duty to realize this..

They left carnations and roses for dead creatures.

Seferihisar Animal Friends Association left the field with carnations and roses for the burning trees and creatures. Fevziye Özkan, the president of the association, said, la With our burning trees and dying creatures, our lungs were burned. We will do our best to protect these beautiful forests. ”