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 Hasankeyf’s 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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Yes, ProtectOurFreedom-
No Muslim I am aware of would ever a picture of Christ up on their wall.
I have yet to figure out how to [re]post pictures in my replies. Thank you, for posting it.
:)
Hidden treasure, never recovered... what a shame, if true.
I was wondering about that myself. Batman won’t be happy if his bat cave goes underwater from then new reservoir!
Same here where I live, towns destroyed because the city of Hartford predicted the growth of Hartford to be much higher than ever happened now they have so much water they have a private bottling company buying the water for pennies and selling it for dollars in the market place. https://todayincthistory.com/2018/12/21/december-21-hartfords-need-for-water-uproots-an-entire-community/
Interesting. Tough, but understandable from the perspective of water as a primary need and our government having a mechanism for occasionally seizing assets for such.
(When it later, further went for local economic development is IMO where things really got off course.)
Did the environmental wackos protest the dam because of the snail darter? Or did they get shot for protesting?
Connecticut's Candlewood Lake submerged a town...So did Barkhamstad Reservoir.
So, this is where you got that roadsign with the name Batman on it!
Yup! I can't even think about that picture without having the 60s TV show theme run through my head. :^)
Turks are always burying history that does not support their story line.
Turk self proclaimed history is pure crap. Total nonsense.
Thank your for background.
Yes they would. Many Muslims see Jesus as a prophet.
It’s called appropriating ethnic and cultural history. Nomadic Turks have none of their own.
None of their own?
Bump
Their history?
The (still unadmitted) Armenian Genocide (and others like it).
Hey would never see Jesus as the Savior.
They accept as a falsehood that He is a prophet. Jesus proclaimed Himself the Son of God, for which they say that whosoever believes that commits heresy and must recant or is.
So at the least they willingly believe a lie by their false god and false prophet or they willingly spread lies.
Not open for discussion, considering the Truth of Christ.
All true. Muslims are deceitful like their Master satan.
Oh I forgot. Turks do have some cultural /psyops gifts offered up to the world.
Turks can claim bizarre ways to kill people en masse.
Hitler studied the techniques.
Turks can also lay claim to how to destroy any vestige of Christianity except that by which they can exploit for their own benefit.
You are totally correct.
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