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A Dam In Turkey Will Soon Submerge One Of The World's Most Ancient Towns
The time had finally come for Ramsiz Alcin to leave, generations after her ancestors settled in this ancient town on the Tigris, decades after the state proposed building a dam down river and after years of protests that had ultimately failed to stop it. The dam would leave Hasankeyf almost totally submerged.
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This 12,000-Year-Old Turkish Town Will Disappear Under An Artificial Lake
The small town of Hasankeyf, in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, inhabited for 12,000 years, is doomed to disappear in the coming months.
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A Dam In Turkey Will Soon Submerge One Of The World's Most Ancient Towns
The time had finally come for Ramsiz Alcin to leave, generations after her ancestors settled in this ancient town on the Tigris, decades after the state proposed building a dam down river and after years of protests that had ultimately failed to stop it. The dam would leave Hasankeyf almost totally submerged.
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This 12,000-Year-Old Turkish Town Will Disappear Under An Artificial Lake
The small town of Hasankeyf, in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, inhabited for 12,000 years, is doomed to disappear in the coming months.
