"Don't Leave Us Homeless, Turkish Villagers Say
by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey on 06. 7.09
“I was born [in Suçeken] and I want to die there," says Behiye Kepti. "I will stay in my village--in a tent, if necessary."
That was the message the 54-year-old Kurdish villager, a mother of six, delivered to European ambassadors late last week on a visit to the Turkish capital of Ankara. Kepti and six other members of the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive met there with representatives of two of the countries that are financially supporting construction of the $1.7 billion Ilısu Dam, which would flood their villages in the southeast of Turkey and force the relocation of 10,000 area residents."
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