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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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Kurdish Militants to Attack Dam Sites, Saying Turkey Violated Ceasefire
Kurdish militants will attack Turkey's dam construction sites in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the group said in a statement late on Saturday, another blow to a fragile peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency.
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In Northeast Syria, Islamic State Builds a Government
In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has insinuated itself into nearly every aspect of daily life.
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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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Kurdish Militants to Attack Dam Sites, Saying Turkey Violated Ceasefire
Kurdish militants will attack Turkey's dam construction sites in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the group said in a statement late on Saturday, another blow to a fragile peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency.
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In Northeast Syria, Islamic State Builds a Government
In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has insinuated itself into nearly every aspect of daily life.
