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Back to Nature

Celik wants to understand the new hopeful struggle in the Turkish landscape, which symbolizes a sustainable future while preserving language, culture and livelihood.

More than 3 million Kurds, Alevis, Chaldeans and Assyrians were forced to leave their villages in Turkey in the 1990s to migrate to cities. This left traumas on the people and accelerated their deterioration. Some of them have had enough of consumer culture and are now returning, making efforts to restore nature with ecological agriculture and animal husbandry, reforestation and beekeeping.

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