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Hasankeyf - when will it be flooded?

Replies: 4 - Last Post: Sep 22, 2012 5:29 AM Last Post By: gettingreadynow

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gettingreadynow

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Sep 16, 2012 1:21 PM
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Hasankeyf - when will it be flooded?

Does anyone know roughly when it will be too late to visit Hasankeyf? I've read a few people on this forum mention next year but I can't find anything on google. I have read that there are plans to literally move some of the archaeological sites, kinda like the Ishtar Gate from Iraq to Berlin, so I guess for people travelling there, they could be a transitional period before it's flooded that key sites will have been decimated...does anyone have any more info about this?

gettingreadynow

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Sep 17, 2012 10:59 AM
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Thanks for the contact - i've emailed them but so far no response. Does anyone else have any info?

Alisonnomad

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Sep 17, 2012 11:28 AM
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I have also emailed the head guy at Hasankeyf Matters to ask him to post a reply on here.

I am sure you will here from him. No one knows the situation better than the Hasankeyf Matters team, they are following the developments blow by blow.

All the best

Alison

gettingreadynow

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Sep 17, 2012 11:57 AM
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Oh that's great Alison - thanks for taking the time to do that.

gettingreadynow

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Sep 22, 2012 5:29 AM
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Just to let anyone interested know, I emailed the link that Alison suggested above and I've just received the following reply:

Target dates for completion of the Ilisu Dam range from 2014-2016, so there's time for you to see Hasankeyf in 2013.

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