Did Chernabyl accident affect Bulgaria and Turkey too?
In Turkey, babies were not born with mutations, but the rate of leukemia at the Black Sea region is higher than the average of Turkey, and many think that Chernobil is responsible for that. Although government officials still deny that Chernobyl has increased cancer cases in Turkey, doctors and people in the Black Sea region do not agree. Although the Turkish Health Ministry has not confirmed that Chernobyl has increased cancer cases in Turkey, according to a 2006 report by Turkish Chamber of Physicians, 47.9 percent of deaths in the Black Sea region are caused by cancer.Although the Chernobyl disaster is said to have taken many lives, perhaps the most well-known case was the death of 34-year-old musician and folk singer Kazım Koyuncu, who died in 2005.Koyuncu recorded his songs in a number of languages spoken along the northeastern Black Sea coast of Turkey, including Lazuri (spoken by the Laz people), Georgian and Armenian. He was also a well-known leftist and activist on environment
