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ORDU - Police attacked a citizen action against a gold mine using cyanide in the Ordu province of Turkey. There, a woman responded to the water cannon of a police vehicle with her water bottle.

The English company Stratex International plans to build a gold mine that uses cyanide in the mining process near the Yukarı Bahçeler village in the Fatsa district of Turkey's Ordu province. For 10 months now, citizens have resisted the mine with a tent encampment at the site.

Despite the ongoing legal process, the company has hurriedly put up cyanide pools. In protest, the people of the region and environmentalists marched against the mine. "The dead can't wear gold," read one sign at the march.

Military police and armored vehicles blocked the people's march. At the entrance of the mine, police attacked, wounding two. One eye-catching sight was that of a woman responding angrily to the police water cannons by flinging water from her small plastic water bottle.

In the wake of the police violence, the people have decided to continue their tent vigil.

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