"Turkey Plans to Sell Rivers and Lakes to Corporations
By Olivier Hoedeman and Orsan Senalp, Corporate Europe Observatory. Posted April 23, 2008.
The water privatization fever is hitting Turkey, just a year before the country will host the World Water Forum.
In March 2009 the Turkish government will host the fifth World Water Forum against a backdrop of what is probably the most sweeping water privatisation programme in the world. As well as privatizing water services, the government plans to sell of rivers and lakes. Turkish social movements, who hosted their own conference in Istanbul last month, suspect the Government is using the World Water Forum to push through this highly controversial agenda."
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