ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月7日 06時55分

This Turkish river valley was prized for millennia for its beauty and treasures. Graced with mosques and shrines, Hasankeyf lay nestled beneath great sandstone cliffs on the banks of the River Tigris. Gardens were filled with figs and pomegranates, and vine-covered teahouses hung over the water. An ancient fortress marked what was once the edge of the Roman Empire, and the ruins of a medieval bridge recalled when the town was a wealthy trading center on the Silk Road.

Now it is all lost forever, submerged beneath the rising waters of the Ilisu Dam, the latest of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s megaprojects. The dam has flooded the archaeological gem of Hasankeyf and displaced thousands of families.

When Erdogan first announced his determination to build the dam, he championed it not only for the energy it would provide Turkey’s expanding economy but also for the development it would bring to the impoverished and insurgency-riven southeast. But many who lost their homes and livelihoods say they were never really consulted. They are bitter and traumatized. Environmentalists and archaeologists, in Turkey and abroad, are angry and frustrated at the loss of the valley and its treasures.

Carlotta Gall, our Turkey bureau chief, visited the area repeatedly with the photographer @limauricio for half a year to witness the disappearance of the valley. The steadily expanding reservoir displaced more than 70,000 people. The authorities dispatched bulldozers to demolish homes and bazaars. And unexplored archaeological riches were swallowed up, along with farms and homes. Tap the link in our bio to read about the loss of Hasankeyf.

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