Neighborhood Residents Complain About Health Risk Alleging Garbage House in Izmir Konak

Residents of Izmir's Konak district, 2nd Kadriye District 628 Street are having a hard time due to the bad smells and pest infestation emanating from their neighbors' houses in the neighbourhood.

Citizens, who repeatedly applied to Konak Municipality for the cleaning of the 3-storey apartment building, which is claimed to be a garbage house, rebelled, stating that they could not get any results.

Recep Sertakar, the brother of the woman who collects the garbage in the apartment, said, "He is cutting off the electricity. He is trying to prevent the water and electricity meters from being read. I say "don't bring the garbage, throw it away" and he swears at me. I am his brother. We have been telling him for years, but he does not understand. Even the stairs on the side are full. All three floors of the house are full of garbage. The stairs used to go up are full, you cannot go up. There is no place to step up. The municipality came and looked. "The decision was made. "We will come out in a week, with the police and medical teams," they said. It's been a month and a half, no one has come yet. They can't take this garbage from here without him being hospitalized."

"WE WILL GET SICK"

Neighborhood resident Kamil Öztürk said, "We complained about this place. There was no result from our complaint. The municipality's personnel came, but they did not clean it. This place has been like this for 17 years. We are devastated by calling the headman and searching left and right, it is a pity for us. The Mayor of Konak should come and see this situation and give us the right. They only removed the car in front; since we reported it to CİMER, the Metropolitan Police came and removed it. There is bad smell and dirt everywhere.

Mice are running around. No one can pass through here. It's a shame, students and children passing by will get sick. We will be sick too. Our request is that this place be cleaned urgently. "Let them find a solution to this problem now," he said.

"WE CAN'T EVEN GO IN FRONT OF THE DOOR"

Another neighborhood resident, Azize Ağırman Özdil, said:

"He collects the garbage, takes it away and brings it back. He has nowhere to go anyway. It smells really bad because of the dirt. We can't get rid of this situation. The neighbors are also disturbed. We don't know where else to go. Let alone going somewhere, we can't even go out in front of the door. There is no place to step in the house anyway. He even filled the toilet with garbage, and goes to the toilet outside."