Tag: Turkey
Countdown to Mesopotamian Water Forum 2019: What Are the Threats to Water Quality and River Health in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin?
From 6-8 April 2019 the 1st Mesopotamian Water Forum will take place at the University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A unique space for open and…
Countdown to Mesopotamian Water Forum 2019: Exploring New Basin-Wide Alternatives to Dam Construction in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin
From 6-8 April 2019 the 1st Mesopotamian Water Forum will take place at the University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A unique space for open and…
Disaster Flood in the Tigris – Made by a Turkish Dam
+++ Mesopotamia Ecology Movement +++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive +++ Disaster Flood in the Tigris – Made by a Turkish Dam Press Release, 19.12.2018 On the evening…
Registration For the 1st Mesopotamian Water Forum is Open!
The Mesopotamian Water Forum is an alternative civil society forum for water, an open space to give voice to those who are marginalized and excluded from the discussion…
First Mesopotamian Water Forum Announced for Sulaymaniyah March 2019 – Call for Contributions!
Save the Tigris Campaign and partners announce the first alternative civil society forum for water in Mesopotamia: the Mesopotamian Water Forum will be held in Spring 2019 in…
Impoundment of Ilisu Dam Reservoir Has Not Yet Started – Drought in Iraq Has Other Reasons
Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive Hasankeyf Matters Press statement Impoundment of Ilisu Dam Reservoir has not yet started – Drought in Iraq has other reasons 11.06.2018 On…
As Summer Approaches and Ilisu Dam Goes Into Operation, Iraq’s Water Crisis Intensifies
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign “Significant quantities of water will continue to flow to Iraq,” the ambassador of Turkey to Iraq, Fatih Yildiz,…
Facing Eviction, Merchants Decry Turkey Dam Project
Diego Cupolo, Deutsche Welle, 10 April 2018 Merut Tekin comes from a long line of merchants in southeast Turkey. From as far back as anyone can remember, his…
Postponement of Ilisu Dam Reservoir is Not a Success!
Statement by Humat Dijlah Baghdad, January 2018 With great concern we are following the decreasing water supply to the Tigris River — a problem which has the potential…
Nature Based Solutions to Big Dams Can Help the Mesopotamian Region and the World
Bonn, Germany – 11 November 2017 During a session of the COP23 on “Managing water scarcity for agriculture”, the Save the Tigris campaign posed a question to Mr.…
Destruction Accelerates in Hasankeyf and Tigris Basin
++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive +++ Hasankeyf Matters +++ Destruction Accelerates in Hasankeyf and the Tigris Basin 30 Oct 2017 Announcement Environmental and heritage destruction have accelerated in…
Iraqi activists stand in solidarity with the people of Hasankeyf
In more than 15 cities across the world on the Global Action Day for Hasankeyf on 23 September actions were organized to protest against Ilisu Dam, the controversial…