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Site WatchCountry: Turkey Critics predict an archeological and human disaster because of £840m dam. Turkey is to go ahead with the construction of a dam on the Tigris river despite claims that it will displace tens of thousands of people and flood a 12,000-year-old city.Critics also say that the €1.2 billion (£840 million) Ilisu Dam will severely restrict the flow of water through Syria and on to Iraq at the risk of provoking another conflict in the troubled region.
But Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, said that the development would create thousands of jobs and bring prosperity to the impoverished, largely Kurdish region in the southeast.
The project, which was shelved four years ago when Balfour Beatty, the British construction company, withdrew because of protests from environmentalists, would also play a key role in generating electricity to plug Turkey’s burgeoning energy gap, he said.
More: The Times
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