"Environmental questions swirl around Turkey’s Ilisu dam project
Posted by: Alexandra Hudson
Hasankeyf’s villagers say the beauty of their home is most striking at first-light or at sundown, when the historic stone ruins are reflected crisply in the waters of the river Tigris.
This is a remote, sparsely populated and, for most of the year, scorchingly hot corner of southeast Anatolia, where people live in poverty and seclusion. Over the years, their anger at the construction of a huge dam which will see Hasankeyf subsumed by flood waters has turned into sad resignation and quiet despair."
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