Posted on 05/27/2019 11:34:39 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
The town of Hasankeyf, Turkey, will soon be only a memory.
From her front door, Fatima Salkan has a sweeping view of the fruit trees, historic ruins and tidy stone compounds that run along this stretch of the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey. She tries her best not to look off in the distance, to the right. The town on the horizon, still under construction, is where she will move when the valley is flooded by a downstream hydropower dam.
Do you see all these old places? she asks in Kurdish. We are the owner, but today we are homeless.
High above, an old Roman fortress crowns a limestone cliff, which is dotted with the caves where her parents and grandparents once lived. The valley below, emerald-green after a recent rain, is studded with yellow wild mustard flowers and bright red poppies. At 45, Hasankeyf is the only home Salkan has ever known. A future severed from it feels like no future at all.
Archeologists believe that Hasankeyfs history began 11,000 years ago, based on Neolithic remains found in the surrounding caves. (Thousands of caves remained inhabited until 1972.) Over the centuries, as the Tigris River became an important Silk Road thoroughfare, Hasankeyf passed through the hands of the Assyrian, Ayyubid and Ottoman Empires. In the second century, it served as a lookout for the eastern edge of the Roman Empire. In the 13th century, it was conquered by the Mongols.
Now, about 25 miles downstream, the Ilisu Dam is complete. The 6,000-foot-long, 1.2 billion euro behemoth is poised to generate 3,800-gigawatt hours of electricity annually, according to the Turkish government. When the project becomes operational in June, officials claim it will flood more than 115 square miles of an agricultural valley, submerging Hasankeyf and dozens of villages...
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Hi, 353FMG,
You may not have noticed the picture of one of the women making comments.
Behind her on the wall is a picture of the Good Shepherd (Christ).
Nowhere, no how, a Muslim has that up on any wall.
"I remember nothing"
That is a good idea !
It is not global warming!!!!!!!!
I HAD to look it up
I wish the Turkish dictator was submerged forever. Here's a serving suggestion...
It is being submerged because of a dam.
although it starts like a global warming drama.
Is there a name of one of these Turkish politicians I can search in the article, it's kinda long, and skipping via a search on "Kurd" hasn't yielded anything yet.
That’s a nice map though!
Nabopolassar, the Chaldean, was allied with Cyaxares, the king of the Medes and the prince of Damascus; Assurbanipal and after him Sin-shar-ishkun of Assyria were aided by Pharaoh Seti and for some time by the king of the Scythians. Egyptian troops are mentioned for the first time in Napopolassars year 10 (-616). For many years the fortunes of war changed camps. Then Nabopolassar and Cyaxares, the Mede, brought the Scythians over to their side. Their armies advanced from three sides against Nineveh. In August of the year -612 The dam on the Tigris was breached, and Nineveh was stormed. In a single night the city that was the splendor of its epoch went up in flames, and the centuries-old empire that ceaselessly carried sword and fire to the four quarters of the ancient worldas far as Elam and Lydia, Sarmatia and Ethiopiaceased to exist forever... The Assyrian king Sin-shar-ishkun perished in the flames of his own palace. His brother Ashuruballit succeeded in escaping and with Egyptian assistance resisted Nabopolassar for a few more years.The End of Nineveh
I love fishing over structure! J/K
That’s a pic of what he’ll get if’n he visits some neighborhoods where the Armenians live in this country...
Zeugma was submerged due to a dam on the Euphrates:
zeugma flood site:youtube.com
I bet the new dam is causing climate change and flooding this poor woman. We must give her at least $1,000,000,000,000 dollars to make up for our USA-privilege.
From Wikipedia:
Religiously, although the majority of Kurds belong to the Shafii school of Sunni Islam, there are also prominent numbers of Kurds who practice Shia Islam and Alevism. Minority of the Kurdish people are adherents to Yarsanism, Yazidism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity.
Many Kurds consider themselves descended from the Medes, an ancient Iranian people,[50] and even use a calendar dating from 612 B.C., when the Assyrian capital of Nineveh was conquered by the Medes.[51]
If you’ve ever seen Iguassu Falls in Brazil/Argentine border (featured in the movie, “The Mission”), the dam above it, which powers much of southeastern Brazil, buried even more spectacular falls upstream.
Interesting!
What a shame, but maybe there was no other option...?
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