The Akbelen Forest Resistance’s mission to save a centuries old-forest from the Limak Holding coal conglomerate has brought them face-to-face with Turkish security forces.
Author Archives: Murat Bay
Murat Bay is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker from the southeast of Turkey currently based in Istanbul. During his work, he has covered human rights, migration, social movements, armed conflict, and natural disasters in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Antarctica, Greece, and Ukraine. He has worked with a number of agencies and news outlets including AP, AFP, Getty Images, Die Welt, and Stern.
