In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/11/turkey-flooding-dams-displaced-antiquities-mesopotamia/

In the town of Hasankeyf in Turkey, an ancient village lies on a plateau, overlooking the Tigris. This village contains remnants of Neolithic pioneers, Byzantines, Romans, and was used with trading in the Silk Road. In 2006, the Turkish government began working on a giant dam across the Tigris river, and it is predicted to flood most of this town within the next year. Turkey is said to be doing this to promote modernization, and to enhance its most valuable resource, being water, for irrigation. I feel that it is completely unacceptable to destroy such a rare and valuable civilization, that can easily be preserved. Aside from this, I also found it extremely interesting just how direct the correlation between environment and political conflict is. For example, the article mentioned that the Kurdistan Workers Party (terrorists to the US and Turkey) revolted against these injustices from Turkey, and made the southeast into a war zone.

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  1. chrheaOctober 28, 2018 at 2:28 PM

    Great example of social issues (modernization, culture, politics) mixing with the environment!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 29, 2018 at 5:55 AM

    True, that would be clapped.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 31, 2018 at 7:09 AM

    This is crazy, if only they could pick up the town a put it somewhere else.

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