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12 Nov 2019

Author:
Madeleine Staaf Kura, Esen Fatma Kabadayi Whiting

Response to Nordex SE letter dated 2nd of September, 2019

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Note: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre sent Nordex a copy of the letter in October. We will publish their response here once/if we receive it.

...[T]he results of both the expropriation of private property decision and the planning of the ABK RES/Vega Energy/NORDEX SE project (since 2014 in progress) are no longer in court proceedings. They have been concluded since February and April 2018, with court ruling against the project...

[W]e would like to stress that none of the court verdicts, taken in the favors of the local victims, have been implemented to date. This is to say that, despite the court ruling, the wrongdoers and their associates of wind turbine business in Cesme are continuing to construct/maintenance, operate and cash in...

Therefore [...] we cordially invite this multi billion Euro corporate, also being the market share leader in Turkey, to act responsibly while doing business in Turkey and immediately remove the NORDEX SE engineers who are still working & operating on the site...

Cesme, Turkey 10th of October 2019

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