10000 YEAR OLD HISTORY OF 9 CIVILIZATION CROSSING PATHS CAN BE WIPED OUT BY NEEDS OF CURRENT CIVILIZATION......
Posted by Vishva News Reporter on April 25, 2007

 

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Village of Hasankeyf on the west bank of historic River Tigris
in southern-eastern Turkey is
one of the oldest settlement on Earth
in which today's villagers live amid 9 fallen civilizations
of which 4 can be seen in remnants and
 5 are being excavated by archeologists
whose work will never be finished in Ilisu Dam is built by Turkey.

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The above is one of the ancient cave village locations
at Hasankeyf where
today's Kurdish Turks still live in these caves

10,000 YEAR ANCIENT HASANKEYF
HISTORY RECORDED OF 9 CIVILIZATIONS CLASHES WITH
CURRENT CIVILIZATION NEEDS AT
ILISU DAM PROJECT IN TURKEY

Kurdish Humans Rights Project: December 16, 2006

The proposed Ilisu dam, part of Turkey's South-eastern Anatolian Project (GAP), which has spread a network of dams and power plants across the Kurdish regions of south east Turkey, threatens more Kurdish homes and livelihoods.

The Ilisu dam will flood an area of 313 square kilometres. No resettlement plan has been agreed, despite the project having been approved by the Turkish government and conditionally approved for financial support by the Swiss Export Credit Agency.

The flooding of the ancient city of Hasankeyf, a town full of historical treasures spanning nine civilizations and including cave churches, ornate mosques and Islamic tombs, whose history goes back 10,000 years, will be submerged by the reservoir of the Ilisu dam.

Spanning nine civilizations, the site is of such archaeological and religious significance that it would clearly warrant designation as a world heritage site by UNESCO.

The town is of particular cultural significance to the Kurdish people: the delegation found a widespread perception that the GAP project, and Ilisu in particular, is motivated primarily by a desire to destroy the Kurds as an ethnic group by destroying their most important cultural site

According to Bugday Association, based in Turkey itself, and which focuses solely on promoting environment-friendly lifestyle and politics, recent field research conducted jointly by Ms. Huriye Küpeli, the prefect of Hasankeyf, Swiss ambassador to Turkey and representatives of the consortium of contractors for the dam project, seem to indicate a suitable nearby spot for moving the historical heritage of Hasankeyf, an operation for which the Turkish Ministry of Culture pledges to provide 30 million euros.

The Ilisu hydro-electric power project is to be situated on the Tigris river, 65 km upstream from the border with Syria and Iraq. With a planned capacity of 1,200 MW, it will be the largest hydro-electric project in Turkey. The project, costing an estimated $2 billion, will be built by an international consortium, led by Swiss company Sulzer Hydro. Companies in the consortium include Balfour Beatty (UK), Impregilo (Italy) and Skanska (Sweden).

 

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A woman tending to her home
at the ancient cave village location at Hasankeyf

With the World Bank declining to become involved in GAP projects, the financing is to be arranged by the Union Bank of Switzerland, with the Export Credit Agencies of Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA currently considering whether to provide financial support for the project.

It is understood that no alternatives to the relatively expensive hydro-electricity project have been considered. Yet independent consultants in Turkey and abroad have stressed that power could be saved at a lower cost by modernizing Turkey's transmission system. In a climate where hydro-power is increasingly viewed as a "sunset" industry, alternative energy technologies, such as solar power, should be considered.

In the light of these findings, the Kurdish Human Rights Project concludes that international support for the project at this stage would be a tantamount to support for a human rights disaster. The international community must pause for thought before committing funds to a project which threatens to infringe the rights of so many in a region already notorious for its lack of respect for human dignity.

To get a holistic perspective of this Turkish dilemma please visit the Southeastern Anatolia Project web site on Wikipedia by clicking on the name hilite...

Also click here to see a ancient and today's Hasankyf living together as shown in the photo above in a photo gallery by Dick Osseman of HASANKEYF AT THE TIGRIS RIVER IN TURKEY 

And to get a deeper understanding of the history of the area of today's news storey please click on the next line...Today's news story has been published by this knowledge-sharing PVAF in the belief that knowing the history of who we are as humanity existing on this planet earth the diverse humanity affords itself a potential to co-exist harmoniously....or the alternative is to parish collectively as the warring civilizations of past history has proved.....


 

Hasankeyf is in Batman Province, southeast Turkey — an area mainly settled by Kurds.

Hasankeyf is in Batman Province, southeast Turkey — an area mainly settled by Kurds.

Hasankeyf

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Please click on the hilited words to learn more about them....

Hasankeyf (Greek: Kiphas; Latin: Cepha; Arabic: Hisn Kayfa; Syriac: Hesno d-Kifo; Kurdish: Hesenkeyf) is a city located along the Tigris River in Batman Province in south-eastern Anatolia, Turkey, densely inhabited by Kurds. It is an ancient city, with roots going back 10,000 years. It was declared a natural conservation area by Turkey in 1981.[1] The Kurdish people form the majority in this city.[2].

The Romans had built a fortress on the site and the city became a bishopric under the Byzantine Empire. It was conquered by the Arabs, in ca. 640, who built a bridge over the Tigris river. The city was successively ruled by the Artukids and Ayyubids.

The city was captured and sacked by the Mongols in 1260. Following the Ottoman ascendancy established by Selim I in the region in early 16th century, the city has become part of the Ottoman Empire since the reign of Sultan Süleyman I's campaign of Irakeyn (the two Iraqs, e.g. Arabian and Persian) in 1534, at the same time as Diyarbakır, Mosul, Baghdad and Basra.

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With its history that spans nine civilizations, the archaeological and religious significance of Hasankeyf is considerable. Some of the city's historical treasures will be inundated if construction of the Ilısu Dam — a part of the GAP project — is completed.[3] These include ornate mosques, Islamic tombs and cave churches.

According to the Kurdish Human Rights Project, an NGO based in London that has been highly concerned with Turkey's development projects for years: The town is of particular cultural significance to the Kurdish people: the delegation found a widespread perception that the GAP project, and Ilısu in particular, is motivated primarily by a desire to destroy the Kurds as an ethnic group by destroying their most important cultural sites.[4]

 

 

Hasankeyf on the Tigris River

Hasankeyf on the Tigris River

According to Bugday Association, based in Turkey itself, and which focuses solely on promoting environment-friendly lifestyle and politics, recent field research conducted jointly by Ms. Huriye Küpeli, the prefect of Hasankeyf, Swiss ambassador to Turkey and representatives of the consortium of contractors for the dam project, seem to indicate a suitable nearby spot for moving the historical heritage of Hasankeyf, an operation for which the Turkish Ministry of Culture pledges to provide 30 million euros.[5]

 

Ms. Huriye Küpeli, prefect of Hasankeyf

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