The Ilisu Dam

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Éditeur : Kurdish Human Rights Project	Date & Lieu : 1999-01-01, London
Préface :	Pages : 156
Traduction :	ISBN : 1 -900175-29-0
Langue : Anglais	Format : 210x295mm
Code FIKP : Br. Eng. Yil. Ili 688	Thème : Général

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Kurdish Human Rights Project: The Ilisu Dam Kerim Yildiz KHRP The Ilisu hydro-electric power project is part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP). The site is situated on the Tigris river, about 65 km upstream of the Syrian and Iraqi border. With a planned capacity of 1,200 MW, Ilisu is Turkey's largest pending hydropower project. In September 1999, a fact finding team comprising three lawyers and a specialist in the social and environmental impacts of large dams visited Diyarbakir, Batman and Hasankeyf in south east Turkey on behalf of the Kurdish Human Rights Project. The purpose of the mission was to make site visits and to confer with elected officials, members of local organisations and those likely to be affected by the dam. Despite constant police surveillance and control, which severely restricted the delegation’s ability to conduct independent investigations as originally intended , recorded interviews were conducted with local politicians, lawyers, historians and a small number of project affected residents. The mission also attended a public conference ...

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Kerim Yildiz

The Ilisu Dam

KHRP

Kurdish Human Rights Project
The Ilisu Dam
Kerim Yildiz

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A report on the implications of the Ilisu Hydro-Electric Power Project,
Batman Province, South-East Turkey,
following a fact finding mission to the region

November 1999

ISBN: 1 -900175-29-0
Published by the Kurdish Human Rights Project, London (November 1999)
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The Ilisu Dam
A Human Rights Disaster in the Making

A report on the implications of the Ilisu Hydro-Electric
Power Project, Batman Province, South-East Turkey,
following a fact findin; mission to the region

November 1999

Kurdish Human Rights Project
Suite 319 Linen Hall
162-168 Regent Street
London W1R 5TB
Tel: 020 7287 2772
Fax: 020 7734 4927
Email: khrp@khrp.demon.co.uk
http://www.khrp.org

The Ilisu Dam:
A Human Rights Disaster in the Making