More than 1,000 people gathered toplanmak Sunday to support desteklemek Allianoi, an ancient çok eski site that will soon become inundated sular altında kalmış by waters from the nearby Yortanlı Dam.
"Burying such an artifact insan eseri is a massacre katliam of history and art. It should be stopped,' said İffet Diler, a spokeswoman for the Allianoi Initiative girişim Group.
Activists from Bergama, İzmir, Balıkesir, Ayvalık, Edremit, Manisa, Aydın, Antalya, Istanbul and Muğla gathered in front of the ancient city in Bergama.
The group, including doctors and agriculturalists çiftçi, also organized a meeting, during which an argument occurred meydana gelmek between the activists and Nuri Taşkıranoğulları, head of the Bergama Agriculture Chamber.
Some of the members protested with music while others lay on the ground and spelled out hecelemek the word "help' with their bodies.
Diler said the ancient site was a treasure hazine for the world's cultural heritage miras.
Forty guides from the Istanbul Chamber of Guides placed a black wreath çelenk saying, "We shame this ugliness' in front of a cableway teleferik which has just opened to service the dam.