Monday, 7 January 2019

Turkey's 12,000-year-old town about to be engulfed

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 the Tigris.

from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2QvZcky

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