Posted on 09/02/2017 5:35:58 AM PDT by huldah1776
On the banks of the river Tigris, in southeastern Turkey, sits Hasankeyf, a small village that is 12,000 years old. However, very soon, that history will come to an end. The Turkish government built a dam 60km downstream and soon Hasankeyf will be underwater. After years of fighting for their village, residents capitulated. They say they feel hopeless and humiliated, especially after the government starting using dynamite to destroy nearby cliffs over the past few weeks.
Turkish authorities have also started to transport eight of the village’s key monuments to "New Hasankeyf". They say they want to preserve these artifacts in order to keep tourists coming to the region.
Activists from several different environmental groups as well as those dedicated to preserving cultural heritage led campaigns to halt the dam project. As a result, several European countries and companies that were formerly engaged in financing the dam project via credit export agencies decided to pull out in 2009, arguing that the plan was not compliant with international regulations. However, in 2010, the Turkish government managed to raise enough money to start construction anew.
In 2018, 80 percent of the village is set to be flooded with water from the Tigris after a giant dam is brought into operation. The overflow of water will flood an estimated 313 km2 of land over the next 60 years.
The Ilisu dam is a flagship project for the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It’s meant to jump-start economic development in the impoverished southeastern part of the country. Authorities say that the dam will create 10,000 jobs, provide water to irrigate the fields in the region and develop tourism, though they haven't given any more specifics.
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From "Water Politics" (a big issue during the Great Tribulation)...
June 23, 2016
http://www.waterpolitics.com/2016/06/23/dams-power-turkeys-conflict-with-the-kurds/
From Ankara’s perspective, dams can be used to constrain the PKK’s movements in the country’s mountainous east, particularly along Turkey’s border with Iraqi Kurdistan. After all, territory covered by water is easier to defend than land, and by separating the Kurdish region’s northern and southern halves, Ankara could restrict the activities of Kurdish militants in the area. Unsurprisingly, the government is reportedly planning to build several new dams in Hakkari and Sirnak provinces, though details remain scarce.
Of course, as long as Ankara keeps building dams, Kurdish militants will keep attacking them. Such attacks have escalated in eastern Turkey over the past few years. Numerous construction workers have been kidnapped, and in 2012, 22 trucks were set on fire at dam sites. All of these incidents were attributed to PKK militants. Then, at the end of 2014, work on the Ilisu Dam stopped for four months after the PKK’s armed wing kidnapped two of the project’s subcontractors. When construction resumed, the largely non-Kurdish workforce was escorted to the site by military tanks. Similarly, militants have targeted Diyarbakir’s Silvan Dam by placing explosives on the roads leading into the site, and security threats in the region have caused construction delays. These types of attacks are unlikely to stop anytime soon: Kurdish separatist groups announced in July 2015 that they will continue to attack hydropower sites.
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Plus national geographic wrote about destroying the town.
Always great photos.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140221-tigris-river-dam-hasankeyf-turkey-iraq-water/
They can just murder them like they did a yeoman like job of with the Armenians.
More of the history of mankind submerges ... first the Ice Caps melt flooding millions of square miles of coast line; then the modern Egyptians stopped the Nile from its normal meandering course burying the Delta’s pre-dynastic sites, then they flooded the Aswan area; now Turkey is flooding still more land rife with ancient sites ... BTW, until very recently no one was supposed to have built any cities before the Sumerians 6,000 years ago. Islam is victorious once again in hiding who we are and where we came from.
I fully expect the muzz slimes, oogabooga savages that they are, to blow up Gobekle Tepe.
wow. As a Christian who believes the Messiah will rule the world, I wonder what His archeological and artistic policies will be. If it was built to worship a demon, will WE want it around? I love architecture and am an artist, so I do take it all very seriously.
Got some great shots of a bouquet of mushrooms this morning. :)
The Quabbin's creation required the flooding, and thus the disincorporation, in April 1938, of four towns: Dana (located in Worcester County), Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott (all located in Hampshire County). The land remaining from the disincorporated towns was added to surrounding municipalities, including Belchertown, Pelham, New Salem, Petersham, Hardwick and Ware. One additional town on the reservoir is Shutesbury, in Franklin County. Because of New Salem's annexation of the Prescott Peninsula, a large wedge of land shifted from Hampshire County to Franklin County. Today, the majority of the reservoir lies in either New Salem or Petersham.
In addition, thirty-six miles of the Boston and Albany Railroad's Athol Branch, the so-called "Rabbit Line", were abandoned (originally the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern Railroad). Route 21, formerly reaching Athol, was truncated to the south side of the reservoir, and new roads—now US 202 and Route 32A—were built, respectively, on the western and eastern side of the reservoir. The designation of Route 109 was removed in 1933 from the road once running from Pittsfield to West Brookfield and leading into Enfield Centre from the southeast; and a different road southwest of Boston received that designation.
When the buildings in the towns flooded by the reservoir were destroyed, some of the cellar holes were left intact while others, chiefly in Prescott and below the flow line, were filled in. Old roads that once led to the flooded towns can be followed to the water's edge. Not all elements of the towns were flooded, however. Town memorials and cemeteries in the four towns were moved to Quabbin Park Cemetery, located on Route 9 in Ware, just off the Quabbin's lands. Many other public buildings were moved to other locations. For example, the Prescott First Congregational Church was moved to South Hadley.[4] The North Prescott Methodist Episcopal Church was moved to Orange in 1949, and then to New Salem in 1985 where it forms part of the building complex of the Swift River Valley Historical Society. The former Town Hall of Prescott now sites off of Route 32 in Petersham.
hmmm...also, makes a damn good target.
Ever notice Leftists, the UN, do-gooders and orgs like National Geographic bemoan the poverty in less developed countries and regions from the comfort of their first world homes & offices?
When those less developed countries begin to build the foundations necessary to improve their lives, those same groups are the first to cry about history/environment/displaced populations and so on?
:) there are towns under man-made lakes in the Ozarks of MO and Arkansas. None archeologically historical or lived in by enemy minorities (that I know of). Lake of the Ozarks is a big party lake.
Personally I would rather live in the old town than the new one, if you saw the pics.
It’s like moving from a victorian town to levittown. for me, prison.
The GOOD news is that the lake won’t cover the city of Batman. Now THAT would’ve been a disaster.
Despite all other reasons people have cited here regarding the nefarious purposes for this dam and lake, Turkey has been talking for 30 years about harvesting their own abundant water and selling it, via pipeline, into the water-starved areas of the countries surrounding Israel.
Unfortunately a price for progress. Years ago I read what ancient villages and Egyptian monuments would be submerged when the Aswan dam at Lake Nassar was built, gone forever as many of them were made not of stone but adobe. Same for Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
Same for many of the lakes in Oklahoma.
Marsh creek lake in PA was a town, totally wild seeing the “ghost” structures that half remain
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