Hasankeyf Matters in the news
Los Angeles Times, “One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be swallowed whole,” Kim Willsher, 3 October 2019
Middle East Eye, “This 12,000 year-old town could soon be under water,” Nimet Kıraç, 21 August 2019
National Geographic, “In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater,” Suzy Hansen, November 2018
Deutsche Welle, “Facing eviction, merchants decry Turkey dam project,” Diego Cupolo, 10 April 2018 (also available in Türkçe)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, “Zum Untergehen verdammt,” Marco Kauffmann Bossart, 10 December 2017
The Irish Times, “Endgame for Turkey's ancient Hasankeyf in sight,” Stephen Starr, 3 April 2017
Today's Zaman, “Why Hasankeyf, why now?” John Crofoot, 10 February 2016
Time Out Istanbul, “Troubled Waters: Hasankeyf Endangered,” Meagan Day, July 2014
National Geographic, “New Dam in Turkey Threatens to Flood Ancient City and Archaeological Sites,” Julia Harte, 21 February 2014 [article and video]
Io Donna-Corriere della Serra, “Disastri Ambientali: La diga sul Tigri che inghiottirà lastoria,” Marta Ottaviani, 25 October 2013
Nautical Archaeological Society, “Rescue Excavations in Turkey,” 11 September 2013 [photo credit: Hasankeyf Matters]
National Geographic Explorers Journal, “Turkish Town Has Hosted 12,000 Years of Human History & Stunning Biodiversity,” Julia Harte, 6 August 2013 [article and video]
Haarlems Dagblad, “De nachtmerrie van Hasankeyf,” Jessica Maas, 31 July 2013
Metro: První Unisexový Magazín, “Turecký Hasankeyf, novodobá Atlantis,” Alina Holušová, July 2013, pgs. 36-38
City Journal, “Silencing the Djinns: A Dam Project Threatens the World’s Oldest City,” Claire Berlinski, Summer 2013
Time Out Istanbul, “A Bittersweet Taste of Village Life,” Alyson Neel, April 2013
Açık Radyo, 94.9, “Orman ve Civarindaki Faydali Isler,” interview with Helen Southcott and John Crofoot, conducted by Zeki Yemez, about 3rd Hasankeyf Ingathering, 21 March 2013
ABC.es, “Una presaamenaza la milenaria villa de Hasankeyf,” Daniel Irarte, ABC TV, 29 January 2013 [article and television story]
Açık Radyo, 94.9, “Orman ve Civarindaki Faydali Isler,” interview with John Crofoot, conducted by Zeki Yemez, about living in Hasankeyf, 24 January 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Hasankeyf locals stuck in limbo after Ilısu Dam decision,” Alyson Neel, 20 January 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Nature Iraq protests flooding of Hasankeyf through art,” Alyson Neel, 10 September 2012
El Mundo, “Hasankeyf, la joya amenazada de Turquía,” Luis Miquel Hurtada, 25 June 2012
News and features about Hasankeyf
The New York Times, “An Ancient Valley Lost to ‘Progress’,” Carlotta Gall, 5 July 2020
Sapiens, “The UNESCO Site That Never Was,” Durrie Bouscareen, 29 April 2020
Al-Monitor, “Women bid goodbye to their submerged homes in ancient town of Turkey,” Mahmut Bozarslan, 6 March 2020
Reuters, “'History disappears' as dam waters flood ancient Turkish town,” Ali Küçükgöçmen, 25 February 2020
DW Türkçe, “Hasankeyf’te mağdur aile: Böyle kalmışız, çare bulamıyorlar,” Burcu Karakaş, 2 February 2020
NPR, “Turkish Valley Home To Human Settlements For Millenia Soon Will Be A Lake,” Durrie Bouscaren, 1 December 2019
The Washington Post, “A Turkish dam is about to flood one of the oldest continuously settled places on Earth,” Kareem Fahim, 27 November 2019
Al Jazeera, “History threatened as Turkey prepares to flood ancient city,” Andrew Wilks, 7 October 2019
Reuters, “Residents scramble to uproot from ancient Turkish town before dam waters rise,” Ali Küçükgöçmen, 7 October 2019
dpa, “Ancient history and rare species swept away by Turkey’s Ilisu Dam,” Christine-Felice Roehrs and Linda Say, 6 October 2019
Yale Environment 360, “Turkey’s Dam-Building Spree Continues, At Steep Ecological Cost,” Paul Hockenos, 3 October 2019
France 24, “12,000-year-old Turkish town to disappear under water,” Shona Bhattacharyya and Ludovic de Foucaud, 2 October 2019 (segment starts at 05:25)
The Economist, “A dam threatens one of the world’s oldest settlements,” Piotr Zalewski, 26 September 2019 (also covered on The Economist's “The Intelligence” podcast starting at 17:15)
Corriere della Sera, “Minareti e grotte, l’antica città di Hasankeyf sarà sommersa dall’acqua,” Marta Serafini, 23 September 2019
Agence France-Presse, “Watery grave for ancient Turkish town of Hasankeyf,” 20 September 2019
The Guardian, “'They are barbaric': Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam,” Tessa Fox, 12 September 2019
CBS News, “Despair as Turkey prepares to flood one of the world's oldest cities,” Pınar Sevinçlidir, 27 August 2019
CNN, “An ancient Turkish town could disappear underwater in weeks,” Rob Picheta, 27 August 2019
RSI News, “La diga che inghiottì Hasankeyf,” Cristoforo Spinella, 18 August 2019
Deutsche Welle Türkçe, “Hasankeyf’in yok olmasına sayılı günler kaldı,” Miray Gökçe, 18 June 2019
Xinhua, “Spotlight: Turkey's 12,000-year-old town soon to be submerged by dam waters: environmentalists,” Burak Akıncı, 17 June 2019
Euronews, “New dam on River Tigris threatens thousands of years of heritage in Turkey,” Joao Vitor Da Silva Marques, 11 June 2019
The Arab Weekly, “Turkish dam could hold trouble for Anatolia’s cultural heritage and for Iraq,” Thomas Seibert, 9 June 2019
PRI's The World, “11,000-year-old Turkish town about to be submerged forever,” Durrie Bouscaren, 22 May 2019
AFP News, “Turkey's 12,000-year-old town about to be engulfed,” Gökan Güneş, 8 January 2019 (plus accompanying AFP video)
Middle East Eye, “Before the flood: Turkey's new dam set to wash away past despite uncertain future,” Kieran Cooke, 26 December 2018
DW Türkçe, “Hasankeyf İnsanlığa Veda Etmek Üzere,” 15 November 2018
Reuters, “Turkish hydroelectric dam will leave hundreds homeless,” Julia Harte, 9 October 2018
BBC Türkçe, “Hasankeyf’in son günleri: Ilısu barajı ne vadediyor?” Berza Şimşek, 6 June 2018
ODA TV, “10 bin yıllık Hasankeyf’i 15 günde zorla boşaltacaklar,” Yusuf Yavuz, 2 March 2018
Equal Times, “Turkey ploughs on with controversial €1.2 billion dam project,” Jennifer Hattam, 20 November 2017
The Telegraph, “The ancient Turkish village that's about to disappear – and 13 other drowned towns,” Soo Kim, 24 October 2017
AFP, “Ancient Turkish town prepares to vanish under floodwaters,” Mahmut Bozarslan, 20 October 2017
Al-Monitor, “Explosions, heartbreak rock ancient Turkish site as dam moves forward,” Mahmut Bozarslan, 6 October 2017
BBC Türkçe, "Sulara gömülecek olan Hasankeyf'te son durum: 'Gül dalında güzeldir',” Hatice Kamer, 7 September 2017
The Guardian, “Turkey's 12,000-year-old Hasankeyf citadel faces obliteration,” Constanze Letsch, 29 August 2017
Al-Monitor, “Turkish dam project would wipe out ancient town,” Fehim Taştekin, 24 August 2017
Deutsche Welle, “Ancient settlement primed for flooding in Turkey,” Diego Cupolo, 23 August 2017
The Arab Weekly, “The last summer of Turkey’s Hasankeyf,” Constanze Letsch, 20 August 2017
National Geographic, “Watch: Medieval Mausoleum Relocated to Escape Dam Flooding,” Rachel Brown, 23 May 2017
Thomson Reuters Foundation, “Tomb of fallen warrior to move before dam floods ancient Turkish township,” Jennifer Hattam, 18 April 2017
Magzine.i, “Ilısu, La Diga Turca Che Prosciugherà La Mesopotamia,” Francesco Bruno/Claudio Cucciatti, 10 February 2017
Middle East Eye, “Hasankeyf: The 12,000-year-old town that Turkey wants to drown,” Lizzie Porter, 7 June 2016
Amnesty Press, “Turkiet dränker Edens lustgård,” Bitte Hammargren, 2 October 2015
BBC Travel, “Where the cave dwellers once lived,” Inka Piegsa-Quischotte, 30 July 2015
Aspect:Ratio, “Hasankeyf - The Drowning Village,” Salvo Buffa, July 2015
TIME, “Discover the Cultural Treasure Turkey Threatens to Flood,” Andrew Katz with photographs by Mathias Depardon, 25 March 2015
South Writ Large, “Drowned Out,” Alyson Neel, Spring 2015
Today's Zaman, “Let's save Hasankeyf for peace,” Pelin Cengiz, 28 December 2014
The Financial Times, “Hasankeyf, Turkey: Soon-to-be Sunken Treasure,” Julian Allason, 7 March 2014
Spiegel Online, “Staudamm-Projektin der Türkei: Ein Dorf, dem Untergang geweiht,” Jannis Hagmann, 16 February 2014
Hurriyet, “SİTalanında inşaat makinası kafa karıştırdı,” Can Mumay, with Hasankeyf entrepreneur Zeydan Ayhan, 13 February 2014
Bir Gün, “Hasankeyf’i Bilir Misin,” by Seçil Türkkan with Hasankeyf native Mesut Güzel, 3 January 2014
Libération, “Mésopotamie, retour aux sources,” Sonia Delesalle-Stolper, 3 January 2014
Milliyet, “Barışiçin Hasankeyf,” Mehveş Evin, 25 November 2013
The Economist, “A Mesopotamian Odyssey,” The Pomegranate Blog, 22 October 2013
Christian Science Monitor, “Dammed, dirty, drained by war: can Iraq's Tigris River be restored?” Jennifer Hattam, 17 October 2013
Dağ Medya, “Dağ Medya Arkeoloji yazarı Zuhal Tuzcu’nun Arkeolog Necdet Talayhan ile Hasankeyf Röportajı,” 19 August 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Travel read: The Ilısu Dam and Tigris cultures under threat,” Laura Moth, 22 July 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Time to Rethink Ilısu,” Kerim Balcı, 8 May 2013
Your Middle East, “The soon to be lost city in Anatolia,” John Wreford, 29 April 2013
Bianet, “Ancient City to be Inundated Under Dam Reservoir," Nilay Vardar, 21 August 2012
New York Times, “Before the Flood,” Andrew Finkel, 17 February 2012
Turkish Review, “The Price of Progress? Hasankeyf and the Ilısu Dam,” Helen Southcott, 24 November 2011
Time Out Istanbul, “Hiking amidst history in the Southeast,” Jennifer Hattam, October 2011
Z Magazine, “Hasankeyf: A Story of Resistance," Janet Biehl, 3 May 2011
Smithsonian, “Endangered Site: The City of Hasankeyf, Turkey," March 2009
Hasankeyf and Hasankeyf Matters in the blogosphere
The Arcae Project, “The doomed town of Hasankeyf,” 28 March 2016
Rabirius, “The Future Of Hasankeyf – Q&A With John Crofoot,” 13 February 2016
Road Beats, “Two Winters of Hasankeyf,” 21 March 2015
Yabangee.com, “Ask an Expat: Melanie Mehrer,” 6 March 2014
Los Angeles Times, “One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be swallowed whole,” Kim Willsher, 3 October 2019
Middle East Eye, “This 12,000 year-old town could soon be under water,” Nimet Kıraç, 21 August 2019
Deutsche Welle, “Facing eviction, merchants decry Turkey dam project,” Diego Cupolo, 10 April 2018 (also available in Türkçe)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, “Zum Untergehen verdammt,” Marco Kauffmann Bossart, 10 December 2017
The Irish Times, “Endgame for Turkey's ancient Hasankeyf in sight,” Stephen Starr, 3 April 2017
Today's Zaman, “Why Hasankeyf, why now?” John Crofoot, 10 February 2016
Time Out Istanbul, “Troubled Waters: Hasankeyf Endangered,” Meagan Day, July 2014
National Geographic, “New Dam in Turkey Threatens to Flood Ancient City and Archaeological Sites,” Julia Harte, 21 February 2014 [article and video]
Io Donna-Corriere della Serra, “Disastri Ambientali: La diga sul Tigri che inghiottirà lastoria,” Marta Ottaviani, 25 October 2013
Nautical Archaeological Society, “Rescue Excavations in Turkey,” 11 September 2013 [photo credit: Hasankeyf Matters]
National Geographic Explorers Journal, “Turkish Town Has Hosted 12,000 Years of Human History & Stunning Biodiversity,” Julia Harte, 6 August 2013 [article and video]
Haarlems Dagblad, “De nachtmerrie van Hasankeyf,” Jessica Maas, 31 July 2013
Metro: První Unisexový Magazín, “Turecký Hasankeyf, novodobá Atlantis,” Alina Holušová, July 2013, pgs. 36-38
City Journal, “Silencing the Djinns: A Dam Project Threatens the World’s Oldest City,” Claire Berlinski, Summer 2013
Time Out Istanbul, “A Bittersweet Taste of Village Life,” Alyson Neel, April 2013
Açık Radyo, 94.9, “Orman ve Civarindaki Faydali Isler,” interview with Helen Southcott and John Crofoot, conducted by Zeki Yemez, about 3rd Hasankeyf Ingathering, 21 March 2013
ABC.es, “Una presaamenaza la milenaria villa de Hasankeyf,” Daniel Irarte, ABC TV, 29 January 2013 [article and television story]
Açık Radyo, 94.9, “Orman ve Civarindaki Faydali Isler,” interview with John Crofoot, conducted by Zeki Yemez, about living in Hasankeyf, 24 January 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Hasankeyf locals stuck in limbo after Ilısu Dam decision,” Alyson Neel, 20 January 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Nature Iraq protests flooding of Hasankeyf through art,” Alyson Neel, 10 September 2012
El Mundo, “Hasankeyf, la joya amenazada de Turquía,” Luis Miquel Hurtada, 25 June 2012
News and features about Hasankeyf
AFP, “Turkey seeks new life for submerged tourist town,” Raziye Akkoç, 28 September 2020
Al-Monitor, “Women bid goodbye to their submerged homes in ancient town of Turkey,” Mahmut Bozarslan, 6 March 2020
Reuters, “'History disappears' as dam waters flood ancient Turkish town,” Ali Küçükgöçmen, 25 February 2020
DW Türkçe, “Hasankeyf’te mağdur aile: Böyle kalmışız, çare bulamıyorlar,” Burcu Karakaş, 2 February 2020
NPR, “Turkish Valley Home To Human Settlements For Millenia Soon Will Be A Lake,” Durrie Bouscaren, 1 December 2019
The Washington Post, “A Turkish dam is about to flood one of the oldest continuously settled places on Earth,” Kareem Fahim, 27 November 2019
Al Jazeera, “History threatened as Turkey prepares to flood ancient city,” Andrew Wilks, 7 October 2019
Reuters, “Residents scramble to uproot from ancient Turkish town before dam waters rise,” Ali Küçükgöçmen, 7 October 2019
dpa, “Ancient history and rare species swept away by Turkey’s Ilisu Dam,” Christine-Felice Roehrs and Linda Say, 6 October 2019
Yale Environment 360, “Turkey’s Dam-Building Spree Continues, At Steep Ecological Cost,” Paul Hockenos, 3 October 2019
France 24, “12,000-year-old Turkish town to disappear under water,” Shona Bhattacharyya and Ludovic de Foucaud, 2 October 2019 (segment starts at 05:25)
The Economist, “A dam threatens one of the world’s oldest settlements,” Piotr Zalewski, 26 September 2019 (also covered on The Economist's “The Intelligence” podcast starting at 17:15)
The Guardian, “'They are barbaric': Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam,” Tessa Fox, 12 September 2019
CBS News, “Despair as Turkey prepares to flood one of the world's oldest cities,” Pınar Sevinçlidir, 27 August 2019
RSI News, “La diga che inghiottì Hasankeyf,” Cristoforo Spinella, 18 August 2019
Deutsche Welle Türkçe, “Hasankeyf’in yok olmasına sayılı günler kaldı,” Miray Gökçe, 18 June 2019
Xinhua, “Spotlight: Turkey's 12,000-year-old town soon to be submerged by dam waters: environmentalists,” Burak Akıncı, 17 June 2019
Euronews, “New dam on River Tigris threatens thousands of years of heritage in Turkey,” Joao Vitor Da Silva Marques, 11 June 2019
The Arab Weekly, “Turkish dam could hold trouble for Anatolia’s cultural heritage and for Iraq,” Thomas Seibert, 9 June 2019
AFP News, “Turkey's 12,000-year-old town about to be engulfed,” Gökan Güneş, 8 January 2019 (plus accompanying AFP video)
Middle East Eye, “Before the flood: Turkey's new dam set to wash away past despite uncertain future,” Kieran Cooke, 26 December 2018
DW Türkçe, “Hasankeyf İnsanlığa Veda Etmek Üzere,” 15 November 2018
Reuters, “Turkish hydroelectric dam will leave hundreds homeless,” Julia Harte, 9 October 2018
BBC Türkçe, “Hasankeyf’in son günleri: Ilısu barajı ne vadediyor?” Berza Şimşek, 6 June 2018
ODA TV, “10 bin yıllık Hasankeyf’i 15 günde zorla boşaltacaklar,” Yusuf Yavuz, 2 March 2018
Equal Times, “Turkey ploughs on with controversial €1.2 billion dam project,” Jennifer Hattam, 20 November 2017
The Telegraph, “The ancient Turkish village that's about to disappear – and 13 other drowned towns,” Soo Kim, 24 October 2017
AFP, “Ancient Turkish town prepares to vanish under floodwaters,” Mahmut Bozarslan, 20 October 2017
Al-Monitor, “Explosions, heartbreak rock ancient Turkish site as dam moves forward,” Mahmut Bozarslan, 6 October 2017
BBC Türkçe, "Sulara gömülecek olan Hasankeyf'te son durum: 'Gül dalında güzeldir',” Hatice Kamer, 7 September 2017
The Guardian, “Turkey's 12,000-year-old Hasankeyf citadel faces obliteration,” Constanze Letsch, 29 August 2017
Al-Monitor, “Turkish dam project would wipe out ancient town,” Fehim Taştekin, 24 August 2017
Deutsche Welle, “Ancient settlement primed for flooding in Turkey,” Diego Cupolo, 23 August 2017
The Arab Weekly, “The last summer of Turkey’s Hasankeyf,” Constanze Letsch, 20 August 2017
National Geographic, “Watch: Medieval Mausoleum Relocated to Escape Dam Flooding,” Rachel Brown, 23 May 2017
Thomson Reuters Foundation, “Tomb of fallen warrior to move before dam floods ancient Turkish township,” Jennifer Hattam, 18 April 2017
Magzine.i, “Ilısu, La Diga Turca Che Prosciugherà La Mesopotamia,” Francesco Bruno/Claudio Cucciatti, 10 February 2017
Middle East Eye, “Hasankeyf: The 12,000-year-old town that Turkey wants to drown,” Lizzie Porter, 7 June 2016
Amnesty Press, “Turkiet dränker Edens lustgård,” Bitte Hammargren, 2 October 2015
BBC Travel, “Where the cave dwellers once lived,” Inka Piegsa-Quischotte, 30 July 2015
Aspect:Ratio, “Hasankeyf - The Drowning Village,” Salvo Buffa, July 2015
TIME, “Discover the Cultural Treasure Turkey Threatens to Flood,” Andrew Katz with photographs by Mathias Depardon, 25 March 2015
South Writ Large, “Drowned Out,” Alyson Neel, Spring 2015
Today's Zaman, “Let's save Hasankeyf for peace,” Pelin Cengiz, 28 December 2014
The Financial Times, “Hasankeyf, Turkey: Soon-to-be Sunken Treasure,” Julian Allason, 7 March 2014
Spiegel Online, “Staudamm-Projektin der Türkei: Ein Dorf, dem Untergang geweiht,” Jannis Hagmann, 16 February 2014
Hurriyet, “SİTalanında inşaat makinası kafa karıştırdı,” Can Mumay, with Hasankeyf entrepreneur Zeydan Ayhan, 13 February 2014
Bir Gün, “Hasankeyf’i Bilir Misin,” by Seçil Türkkan with Hasankeyf native Mesut Güzel, 3 January 2014
Libération, “Mésopotamie, retour aux sources,” Sonia Delesalle-Stolper, 3 January 2014
Milliyet, “Barışiçin Hasankeyf,” Mehveş Evin, 25 November 2013
The Economist, “A Mesopotamian Odyssey,” The Pomegranate Blog, 22 October 2013
Christian Science Monitor, “Dammed, dirty, drained by war: can Iraq's Tigris River be restored?” Jennifer Hattam, 17 October 2013
Dağ Medya, “Dağ Medya Arkeoloji yazarı Zuhal Tuzcu’nun Arkeolog Necdet Talayhan ile Hasankeyf Röportajı,” 19 August 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Travel read: The Ilısu Dam and Tigris cultures under threat,” Laura Moth, 22 July 2013
Today’s Zaman, “Time to Rethink Ilısu,” Kerim Balcı, 8 May 2013
Your Middle East, “The soon to be lost city in Anatolia,” John Wreford, 29 April 2013
Bianet, “Ancient City to be Inundated Under Dam Reservoir," Nilay Vardar, 21 August 2012
New York Times, “Before the Flood,” Andrew Finkel, 17 February 2012
Turkish Review, “The Price of Progress? Hasankeyf and the Ilısu Dam,” Helen Southcott, 24 November 2011
Time Out Istanbul, “Hiking amidst history in the Southeast,” Jennifer Hattam, October 2011
Z Magazine, “Hasankeyf: A Story of Resistance," Janet Biehl, 3 May 2011
Smithsonian, “Endangered Site: The City of Hasankeyf, Turkey," March 2009
Hasankeyf and Hasankeyf Matters in the blogosphere
The Arcae Project, “The doomed town of Hasankeyf,” 28 March 2016
Rabirius, “The Future Of Hasankeyf – Q&A With John Crofoot,” 13 February 2016
Road Beats, “Two Winters of Hasankeyf,” 21 March 2015
Şehrine Ses Ver (Pinar Koyuncu), “Hasankeyf’in Kokusu, Dicle’nin Sesi...” 22 January 2014
Mathias Depardon, “Before The Flood in Internazionale Magazine. La diga che divide la Turchia,” December 2013
Tryfon Topalidis, “The last film made in Hasankeyf,” 26 October 2013
Tryfon Topalidis, “Hasankeyf residents protesting against Ilisu Dam,
The Creative Caravan, “The Great Walking Guide of Hasankeyf,” 25 May 2013
Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative, “Meet Me in Hasankeyf: Culture, People and Politics in Hasankeyf,” 8 May 2013
A Journey Deep into the Struggle (Johanna Rivera), “Meet Me in Hasankeyf: Culture, People and Politics in Hasankeyf,” 22 April 2013
Nawres Press, “A Common Story between Chibayish and Hasankeyf,” 21 April 2013 [also published in Arabic]
Trici Venola, “Rocking the Cradle of Civilization: Drawing On The Hasankeyf Train,” 19 February 2013
Diclede10gun, “Dostları, Hasankeyf’in yaşamasıiçin çalışıyor,” 15 September 2012
Necat Keskin, “‘Bedewiyên Avê’’ jî li dijî bendava İlisu ne!” 2 May 2012
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