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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hasankeyf - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Hasankeyf
Latitude: 37.714167N  Longitude: 41.413056E
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Hasankeyf submitted by Andy B : A view of the ancient bridge across the Tigris as the river flows through Hasankeyf. (Courtesy Senol Demir/Flickr Creative Commons) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hasankeyf is an ancient city, and has been identified with the Ilanṣura of the Mari Tablet (c. 1800 BC). Thousands of caves exist in the cliffs that surround the city.

The Romans built the Cephe fortress on the site and the city became the Kiphas fortress and a bishopric under the Byzantine Empire.

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Note: Turkish dam threatens town that dates back to the Bronze Age, lone protester wins court ruling for assessment of Hasankeyf's cultural value and the damage the dam might cause.
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Hasankeyf submitted by jansold : Storage and animal pens amongst the dwellings Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hasankeyf submitted by Jansold : Cliffs rise from both sides of the river, with numerous hollowed out caves. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hasankeyf submitted by Jansold : Storage and animal pens amongst the dwellings. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hasankeyf submitted by Jansold : Cave dwellings inhabited until recently. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hasankeyf submitted by Jansold : General view of the Artukid site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hasankeyf submitted by jansold : Cliffs rise from both sides of the river, with numerous hollowed out caves. Site in Turkey

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Hasankeyf submitted by jansold : Cave dwellings inhabited until recently Site in Turkey

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Hasankeyf submitted by jansold : General view of the Artukid city Site in Turkey

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Bones from Neolithic era found in Turkey's Hasankeyf by davidmorgan on Sunday, 01 September 2013
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Excavations have revealed human skeletons buried underground. The skeletons date back to the Neolithic age 11,500 years ago, according to Japanes Professor Yutuka Miyake.

Excavations carried out by a Japanese team in Batman’s ancient city of Hasankeyf have revealed painted graves from the Neolithic age 11,500 years ago. Human skeletons were found in the graves. Hasankeyf attracts 500,000 visitors from all around the world each year, yet part of Hasankeyf’s historical area will be flooded once the Ilısu Dam project starts.

The head of the Hasankeyf excavation team, Batman University Rector Abdüsselam Uluçam, said that a tender had been put out for the movement of Hasankeyf to a new place.

He added that Hasankeyf should move to its new place as soon as possible and it was out of question for the ancient city to be submerged underwater before the end of movement process.

“I have been continuing excavation works here for some 12 years. All public owned land has been excavated in Hasankeyf. We can continue excavations on privately-owned lands when the State Hydraulic Works (DSI) confiscates them. The movement works have been put out to tender. The movement of 15 artifacts will begin soon. Also, the castle rocks should be protected from the water. Otherwise the castle rocks will collapse. Hasankeyf Bridge will remain underwater. We will only move the Seljuk reliefs at the foot of the bridge,” Uluçam said.
He said that shanty houses, which were built in 1966 and where the people of Hasankeyf were living, should be removed in order to reveal the whole of the ancient city.

Village from Neolithic age

This year 18 painted graves from the Neolithic age were discovered in the Hasankeyf tumulus. Works are still continuing with 12 experts, six students and 40 workers under the scientific consultation of Japanese Tsukuba University’s Professor Yutuka Miyake.

Miyake said that the tumulus were from 11,500 years ago, the beginning of the Neolithic age, and continued:

“We know this place as the first village founded in the region. People lived the nomadic life here. Sometime later they moved to settled life. There are lots of rounded houses here and people lived there. There is a structure of 9 meters in width. We think that this structure is a special one. There is an obelisk on the floor. We have found the same thing in a tumulus in Siirt. We determined 30 funerary chambers and human skeletons underground. In these times, people used to be buried underground because there were no graveyards. We also found traces of painting on human skeletons. The bones were painted with orange and black.”

Miyake said that excavations started on Aug. 15 and 18 human skeletons had been found since then. The number of total human skeletons found amounted to 80 when added to those found last year.

Source: Hürriyet
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Dammed by Andy B on Wednesday, 08 June 2011
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In 2006, the Turkish government began construction on the Ilisu Hydroelectric Dam, a U.S. $1.7 billion project which, if completed as planned by 2013, would submerge Hasankeyf under 200 feet of the Tigris’s waters.

The dam would generate 3.8 gigawatt hours of electricity per year, enough to provide for over a million and a half Turkish people each year. The reservoir created would keep water, a precious resource in the region, inside Turkey’s borders and out of neighboring Iraq and Syria. The newly available water would also support the population of the Hasankeyf region, who are mainly of Kurdish minority and earn their living from agriculture. According to Mehmet Acikgoze, the regional coordinator of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), the dam would enhance the employment capacity of the rural sector and thereby raise income and standards of living.

The people of Hasankeyf and local NGOs, however, have expressed skepticism towards the government’s assertions, pointing to more sinister reasons for the dam’s construction. U***** Karakus, a resident of Hasankeyf and the city’s main tourist guide, said that the government hopes to stop movement of Working Party of Kurdistan (PKK) rebels who cross the border from Iraq and find support among the marginalized people of Hasankeyf. “But these reasons are more speculative,” he admitted.

http://tyglobalist.org/focus/dammed/
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Turkish dam threatens town that dates back to the Bronze Age by Andy B on Wednesday, 08 June 2011
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Hasankeyf has survived drought, war and empire, but it could be flooded out of existence within a few years

It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on Earth, a town on the banks of the Tigris that dates back to the bronze age.

Over the years it has survived the rise and fall of empires, drought, war and the harsh vicissitudes of nature.

But Hasankeyf is facing the prospect of being flooded out of existence as Turkish authorities seek to speed up a dam project in south-east Anatolia that will raise the level of the river by 60 metres (200ft).

All is not yet lost. In March 2011, a court in Diyarbakir ordered an assessment of Hasankeyf's cultural value and the damage the dam might cause.

The investigation was brought about by the determination of a sole plaintiff.

Murat Cano, a lawyer, has been fighting the dam since 2000 on the basis that it violates a Turkish law for the preservation of historical sites and the European convention on the protection of the archaeological heritage.

"The ministry of culture has no feasible plans on how to move and protect the historical monuments," Cano said.

More in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/20/turkish-dam-threatens-town-bronze-age
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Construction vehicles are destroying Turkey's Hasankeyf, experts say by coldrum on Thursday, 26 August 2010
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Construction vehicles are destroying Turkey's Hasankeyf, experts say

An investigation begun after a man was killed by a falling rock at the ancient city of Hasankeyf has revealed that construction vehicles working in the area have brought the 10,000-year-old settlement close to collapse.

“It is a crime by law to enter protected areas with heavy-duty vehicles. Before the rock broke, there were cracks but the necessary precautions were not taken,” said archaeologist Ercan Alpay, a member of the committee formed by the Initiative to Revive Hasankeyf to investigate the death of a man killed July 13 when a rock fell from a tower in the area.

After the fatal incident, the road to the ancient bazaar and tents located near the Tigris River were closed to vehicle and passenger traffic.

“Excavating with vehicles in a historical site has nothing to do with scientific research,” Alpay said, adding that such work can do massive damage to a fragile site such as Hasankeyf.

The committee, which includes archaeologists, architects and building and geology engineers, found in its report that caves used as dwellings as early as 800 B.C. had been damaged. It concluded that the ancient city is at risk of collapse.

Pieces of rock will continue to fall due to cracks, said building engineer Murat Ekinci, another expert from the committee, adding that an official technical committee should be sent to Hasankeyf immediately. “The rocks that are at risk of falling should be removed using technical methods. If the removal of those rocks would damage the historical areas, they should be strengthened against collapse,” Ekinci said. “In the areas that are at high risk of falling rocks despite the strengthening work, the construction of new dwellings or roads should be prohibited.”

The report prepared by the committee said it is not necessary to block Hasankeyf to visitors and “leave it to its fate,” since recent technological developments allow the area to be shored up and protected.

Professor Abdüsselam Uluçam, the head of the Hasankeyf excavation team, denied the committee’s allegations and said in a written statement that the vehicles were not used in excavations but for moving debris afterward. “The excavation team is aware that heavy vehicles should not be used during excavations. But after the excavations are done, there is waste that cannot be moved by manpower,” Uluçam said. “The workers use the necessary equipment and vehicles while carrying waste and building something heavy.”

Commenting on the man who was killed by a falling rock, Uluçam added: “Providing for the safety of locals in the excavation area is not among the duties of the excavation team. It is the responsibility of business owners there and the local authorities.”

He also said the Culture and Tourism Ministry will establish a scientific commission to investigate risky areas and the stability of rocks in the area.

Three million tourists visited Hasankeyf in 2008. This number fell to 2.2 million in 2009 due to the economic crisis. The first six months of this year saw 1 million visitors, but tourism has dropped off as a result of the rock accident and the subsequent closure of the historical area. Some 3 million tourists had been expected to visit in 2010, but that number has been revised to 2 million.

The entire Hasankeyf area is expected to be flooded once construction of the Ilısu Dam is concluded.


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=construction-vehicles-destroys-hasankeyf-says-experts-2010-08-12
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