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Ilisu Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey.

Criticism

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Completion of the Ilisu dam would cause the flooding of the ancient city of Hasankeyf whose history stretches back over 10,000 years. Investigations by the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) 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 sites.

Between 50 and 68 hamlets and villages will be flooded affecting approximately 25,000 local people. An additional 57 villages will have their land partially flooded.

Many villages have been evacuated at gunpoint by the Turkish authorities, and in many cases houses have been burnt to the ground.

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External links

• www.gap.gov.tr - Official GAP web site
• www.un.org.tr/undp/Gap.htm - United Nations Southeast Anatolia Sustainable Human Development Program (GAP)
• www.gapturkiye.gen.tr/english/current.html Current status of GAP as of june 2000
• www.ecgd.gov.uk Data sheet
• www.turkishembassy.org/governmentpolitics/issuesgap.htm

Criticism:

• www.khrp.org/publish/p1999/IlisuReport.htm The Ilisu Dam - A Human Rights Disaster in the Making
• http://www.ilisu.org.uk/ Ilisu Dam Campaign

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