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Construction of New Road Cutting Through METU's Forest Started in Ankara
The construction site of a new road project is pictured after cutting through the Middle East Technical University's (METU) forested campus in Ankara, Turkey on September 11, 2017. The university's rector Prof. Dr. Mustafa Versan Kok recently announced that the rectorship and the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality signed a protocol on a new road project of 4.8 kilometres in length passing through the university with the destruction around 24 hectares of the forest land. In the late evening hours of September 09, approximately 500 trucks and construction equipments with hundreds of police officers escorting them unexpectedly started to cut down the trees in the land a day after the signing the protocol. (Photo by Altan Gocher/NurPhoto)
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| Photographer | Altan Gocher/NurPhoto |
| Category | Economy, Business and Finance |
| Copyright | © 2026 NurPhoto - Altan Gocher/NurPhoto |
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