29 mai 2020
L'Histoire disparaît, Hasankeyf, une ancienne ville de 12 000 ans en Turquie. History disappears,ÊHasankeyf, a 12,000 years old ancient town in Turkey.
© Alfred YAGHOBZADEH / Divergence
The Koctepe village and six in other villages deserted and invaded by filling water is almost fully submerged by the rising waters as the reservoir rises, Turkey's fourth biggest dam. The planned Ilisu dam reservoir would completely or partially flood 199 villages and the ancient town of Hasankeyf, which are home to up to 78,000 people. Additionally up to 3,000 nomadic families would suffer directly. " 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. The dam, which will be Turkey's second largest, has been built further downstream of the Tigris. Turkey has started filling a huge hydroelectric dam on the Tigris river, a lawmaker and activists said, despite protests that it will displace thousands of people and risks creating water shortages downstream in namely Iraq. Residents are being moved from the ancient town to a 'New Hasankeyf' nearby, while historic artefacts have also been transported out of the area. Koctepe, Turkey 05/08/2006
Lieu : HASANKEYF, TURKEY
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