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Completion of the Ilisu Dam would cause the flooding of the ancient city of ] whose history stretches back over 10,000 years. Investigations by the ] (KHRP) found a The ] (KHRP) contends completion of the Ilisu Dam would cause the flooding of the ancient city of ] a city with more than 10,000 years of history. The KHRP found that 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."

⚫ According to the KHRP, 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.
:''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. 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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Ilisu Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey. Located on the Tigris river it is the largest hydroelectric power plaint of the project. It is estimated that the dam will create a reservoir with a maximum volume of 10.4 billion m and a surface area of 313 km creating a power capacity of 1,200 MW and is expected to produce 3,800 GWh of power per year.

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The Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) contends completion of the Ilisu Dam would cause the flooding of the ancient city of Hasankeyf a city with more than 10,000 years of history. The KHRP found that 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."

According to the KHRP, 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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