{"id":6545,"date":"2012-02-22T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:56","slug":"ilisu-dam-sinking-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/02\/22\/ilisu-dam-sinking-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilisu Dam \u2013 Sinking History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6546\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/02\/22\/ilisu-dam-sinking-history\/hasankeyf-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hasankeyf\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Hasankeyf, Turkey overlooking the Tigris River&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6546\" title=\"Hasankeyf\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf.jpg\" alt=\"Hasankeyf, Turkey overlooking the Tigris River\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The Ilisu Dam is a dam under construction in Turkey at the headwaters of the Tigris River. It has generated controversy because 55,000-65,000 people will be forcibly relocated and a city with a 10,000-year history will be flooded.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish government has promised that resettled people will be compensated, but many of the people don&#8217;t own the land they farm and won&#8217;t receive money for it.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the dam began in 2006 and is expected to be completed in 2014. Ilisu Dam will create a reservoir containing more than eight million acre-feet. The water will be used for hydropower to create electricity that will be used far away from the dam.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish activists have tried to <a title=\"Ancient Tigris Valley May be Saved from Dam if Declared World Heritage Site\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2009\/06\/11\/ancient-tigris-valley-saved-dam-declared-world-heritage-site\/\">put Hasankeyf on Unesco&#8217;s World Heritage list<\/a>, but so far have been unsuccessful \u2013 the Turkish government would have to agree to it.<\/p>\n<p>Journeyman Pictures made a documentary about Ilisu Dam. It&#8217;s 26 minutes long and well worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/726-CyEMuoE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hasankeyf, Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=hasankeyf&amp;search_group=&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1#id=82433386&amp;src=c140e86297555ee2534b2b655a9343b7-1-0\" target=\"_blank\">Hasankeyf, Turkey<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ilisu Dam is a dam under construction in Turkey at the headwaters of the Tigris River. It has generated controversy because 55,000-65,000 people will be forcibly relocated and a city with a 10,000-year history will be flooded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[2854,949,1051,2179,2224,2250,2537],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hasankeyf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}