The port in Bodrum Gümüşlük district, housing 3,500-year old ruins of the ancient city Myndos, was cleaned with special permission. Gümüşlük Environment Protection Association and Gümüşlük Municipality are organizing the cleaning campaign that will last for a week. The amount of litter, collected by divers and volunteers from the seabed and the shore, surprised everyone.
Within the scope of the campaign, Mayor Mehmet Ülküm of the Republican People”s Party (CHP), Gümüşlük Environment Protection Association Chairman Yüksel Güner, 120 elementary school students, 20 teachers, 40 environmentalists and 15 divers participated in the cleaning activities of the port where sunken ruins of the ancient city of Myndos are located.
The divers gathered various kinds of trash from the see such as beer bottles, forks, tires, plastic chairs and shoes, which were then exhibited in the port for six hours. Indicating that four tractor loads of trash were collected, 90 percent of which were tin, Mayor Ülküm said: ’We have been cleaning the area for 10 years. The waste increases day by day. From this year on, we will put a notice board at the port on which the names of the people polluting the sea will be disclosed. Moreover, we will start legal action against those people.”
Domestic News - Resource: Turkish Daily News
