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IZMIR – Drums and pipes met the incoming World March of Women, who brought their solidarity to the environmental struggle in the Aegean city of Muğla yesterday.

"We are drawing the map of Europe without borders, the way it should be," said YıldızTemurturanof the journey to the march's sixth stop, in Muğla. After spending time in Izmir, the women will continue to Greece in the coming days.

 TheMuğla delegation meeting the woman crowned them with olive branches, a symbol of the Aegean region and of peace. The woman walked nearly the entire length of the small 65,000-person city, shouting slogans against the exploitation of nature—one of the main themes of the march's international action this year. In spite of the rain, women maintained a rebellious and joyous atmosphere.

At the end of the march, the women sent their greetings to the resisting women in Kobanê from historicSaburhane Square. They fried the Izmir region's traditional friedlokma doughnuts in the square, an activity typically done at ceremonies—in this case, a ceremony to remember women lost to femicide.

At Sınırsızlık Square, the women hung a plaque on the monumentto SaynurGelendost, a symbol of the environmentalist struggle in Turkey. Saynur held a hunger strike in 1994 at the square to protest the construction of the Gökova thermal reactor.

Women held a forum with an open lectern on the subject of ways to escalate the environmental struggle.

Women spent the night in Didim and will be in Izmir today, with a 6 p.m. rally at KonakEskiSümerbank.

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