The river that supported his family’s town of Hasankeyf for generations will soon destroy it. The small town of Hasankeyf, in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, inhabited for 12,000 years, is doomed to disappear in the coming months. An artificial lake, part of the Ilisu hydroelectric dam project, will swallow it up. Confronted with the imminent flooding of their town and a hundred villages, the 3,000 habitants of Hasankeyf are divided. In 1981, Hasankeyf was classified as a special conservation zone with a ban on construction that kept investors away.

Source: Egypt Independent January 08, 2019 09:56 UTC