Turkish activist researcher Pinar Demircan wrote this article for Nuclear Transparency Watch which we are re-publishing on our website with her permission.

Turkish journalist and anti-nuclear activist Pinar Demircan is known to the readers of DiaNuke.org as we interviewed her earlier about the nuclear risks in her country. Recently, she met eminent health expert and anti-nuclear crusader Dr. Helen Caldicott, who shared some extremely valuable insights about her career, challenges and manipulations by the nuclear lobbies.

Pinar Demircan The author, Pınar Demircan (Ph.D. in sociology) is an independent researcher, Nukleersiz.org Coordinator and nuclear editor at Yesil Gazete. Her earlier articles on our website can be accessed here. The Discharge of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water could be a Precedent for Similar Actions [1] Underlying the disregard for objectionsRead More

In this article, Pinar Demircan examines the present Russian occupation of Ukraine as one that signifies the dead end of capitalism. The author argues that foreign dependency has made even the Russian nuclear industry giant Rosatom aggressive and vulnerable at the same time, and points to the possibility of similar occurrences across other geographies, including in her country, Turkey by looking at it from the perspective of nuclear energy.