Hasankeyf Coordination has visited the villages of Hasankeyf, which is soon to be engulfed by the rising waters of Ilısu dam reservoir. 94 artists have made a joint call for the ancient city.

The clock is ticking for an ancient city in southern Turkey that is about to be left underwater. Despite an outcry from locals and activists, the 12,000 years of human history in Hasankeyf will be ...

HASANKEYF, Turkey — Ask shepherd Ramazan Agalday how long his family has lived in the ancient city of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey, and his rheumy eyes cloud over. “I am 80 years old and I was ...

A part of the world’s history is about to disappear forever. The ancient Turkish city of Hasankeyf, which lies in south-east Turkey’s Batman province, is 12,000-years-old. The Romans, Byzantines, ...

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Hasankeyf is home to thousands of human-made caves, hundreds of medieval monuments and a rich-ecosystem. Images & Stories / Alamy The waters of the Tigris River gave rise to the first settlements of ...

This Turkish river valley was prized for millennia for its beauty and treasures. But the government wanted people to make way for a new mega-project: the Ilisu Dam. The authorities dispatched ...

Chairpersons of 25 bar associations have come together in Hasankeyf upon a call by the Batman Bar Association, releasing a declaration against the Ilısu Dam which will cause the ancient city submerged ...

The ancient settlement of Hasankeyf will soon be submerged as part of a controversial dam project – despite residents’ protests After the half-hour drive from Batman in south-east Turkey, the ancient ...