Turkish dam set to inundate a town that’s thousands of years old

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This summer, Turkey’s new Ilisu Dam on the Tigris river is expected to become operational. And it will put an ancient town under water. Durrie Bouscaren reports from Hasankeyf in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast.  

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