Activists have been protesting the Ilısu dam for 20 years, stating that Turkey will be flooding the ‘cradle of civilisation’. Among the towns set to be submerged is 12,000-year-old Hasankeyf, which has thousands of neolithic caves and hundreds of ancient monuments. If the work on the dam is finished we will see hundreds of majority-Kurdish … Continue reading Save Hasankeyf, Stop the Ilısu Dam