ISTANBUL - Yavuz Kaygusuz, a neighborhood leader in Istanbul’s Fındıklı area, says regardless of whether phone towers cause cancer, they have affected the residents’ psychology adversely and they are determined to remove the towers. An increase in cancer cases in the area led to the protests.

Residents lash out at towers’ presence Residents of Istanbul's Anatolian district of Maltepe’s Fındıklı neighborhood are protesting three mobile phone transponders near their homes, after cancer cases on their street increased in the last couple of years.

"Whether or not the towers cause cancer, they have affected our psychology adversely and we want them to be removed," Yavuz Kaygusuz, a neighborhood leader, told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review yesterday.

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