Bülent Şık
Bülent Şık is a Turkish food engineer, environmental and human rights activist and a whistleblower. He was convicted after disclosing the results from a government study on environmental pollution and carcinogens. Early life and education Career Şık has worked at Akdeniz University in Antalya, where he was a deputy director of the Food Safety and Agricultural Research Center. In the early 2010s, Şık worked on a 5-year research project for the Ministry of Health (Turkey), Turkey's Ministry of Health investigating a possible relation between the high incidence of cancer in western Turkey (Kocaeli Province, Kocaeli, Tekirdağ Province, Tekirdağ, Kırklareli Province, Kırklareli, Edirne Province, Edirne and Antalya Province, Antalya) and toxicity in local soil, water, and food. Şık found dangerous levels of toxicity in a number of food and water samples, concluding that water in several residential areas is unsafe for drinking. In 2015, he reported his findings to the go ...
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