Hasankeyf Coordination has visited the villages of Hasankeyf, which is soon to be engulfed by the rising waters of Ilısu dam reservoir. 94 artists have made a joint call for the ancient city.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Chairpersons of 25 bar associations have come together in Hasankeyf upon a call by the Batman Bar Association, releasing a declaration against the Ilısu Dam which will cause the ancient city submerged ...

For some 12,000 years, the Tigris River has sustained the people of Hasankeyf, one of the oldest known human settlements. Now time is running out for the ancient town. Soon a controversial dam project ...

HASANKEYF, Turkey — The time had finally come for Ramsiz Alcin to leave, generations after her ancestors settled in this ancient town on the Tigris, decades after the state proposed building a dam ...

HASANKEYF, Turkey — Ask shepherd Ramazan Agalday how long his family has lived in the ancient city of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey, and his rheumy eyes cloud over. “I am 80 years old and I was ...

This Turkish river valley was prized for millennia for its beauty and treasures. But the government wanted people to make way for a new mega-project: the Ilisu Dam. The authorities dispatched ...