"Turkey's riverside refugees
The ancient Turkish city of Hasankeyf fights for survival as a new damn is planned.
Jonathan Lewis
By Constanze Letsch, / Contributor / June 17, 2011
Hasankeyf, a city overlooking the Tigris River in the Southwestern Anatolia region in Turkey, prides itself on being the oldest inhabited settlement on earth. Having withstood the trials of millenniums and the occupation of civilizations from the Romans, Byzantines, Assyrians, Arabs, and Mongols to the Ottomans, all of whom left their mark, the ancient town now faces the threat of being flooded."
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