Press Releases
Statement on Arrest of National Geographic Photographer Mathias Depardon and the Imminent Move of the Zeynel Bey Tomb
Yesterday local sources reported that the Zeynel Bey Tomb in Hasankeyf, which has been encased in a concrete foundation, has now been lifted from its original foundation. According to local reports, the tomb will be moved tomorrow (Friday) without advance notification to the press. At the time of writing, the DSI (the State Hydraulic Works), which is responsible for the Ilisu Dam Project, has not announced the move on its web site.
Open Letter to Bresser: Failed test run – Stop relocation of Zeynel Bey Tomb!
+++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive +++ Hasankeyf Matters +++ Mesopotamian Ecology Movement +++ Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign +++ Humat Dijla, Baghdad +++
Failed test run shows impossibility of relocation of Zeynel Bey Tomb in Hasankeyf!
Stop the relocation project!
Call Dutch company Bresser to stop the relocation of Zeynel Bey Tomb!
In the following days the highly controversial relocation of the Zeynel Bey Tomb in Hasankeyf could be started. This would lead to the start of the irreparable destruction of the cultural heritage of 12.000 years old town Hasankeyf and a large part of the Tigris valley in the mainly Kurdish Southeast of Turkey!
Open Letter to Bresser Eurasia and Er-Bu İnşaat
+++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, Turkey +++ Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Turkey +++ Hasankeyf Matters, Turkey +++ Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign, Iraq +++ Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative, Iraq +++ 
Zeynel Bey Tomb relocation – Int’l Open letter to 2 European Companies
Open letter to:
1) Bresser Eurasia BV.
Viltweg 1p, P.O. Box 5231, 3295 ZJ ’s-Gravendeel, The Netherlands
2) Korres Engineering
9 Varnali Str., Melissia 151 27, Athens, Greece
Request to withdraw from the relocation of the Zeynel Bey Tomb in
Hasankeyf/Turkey
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Save the date: Counterforum to UNESCO-WHC session, July 16-17, 2016, Istanbul.
Call for Action to Protect the Marshlands of Mesopotamia!
Statement by the Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign – June 9, 2016
We demand transparency from the Iraqi government and UNESCO-Iraq regarding a possible inclusion of the Iraqi Marshes for the World Heritage List.
7+8th of May: Hasankeyf and Tigris Symposium
Hasankeyf and Tigris Valley Symposium – Final Program
7 and 8 May 2016, Batman and Hasankeyf
Final Declaration of 1st Ecology Conference (April 23-24, Wan)
+++ Mesopotamian Ecology Movement +++
Final Declaration of the 1st Conference held on April 23-24, 2016, in Wan – North Kurdistan
On April 23 and 24, 2016, the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement (MEM) held its first conference in the city of Wan (Van). One hundred delegates participated, coming from the provinces Amed (Diyarbakir), Dîlok (Gaziantep), Riha (Sanliurfa), Merdîn, Muş, Wan, Elih (Batman), Siirt, Dersîm, and Bedlîs (Bitlis) in Turkey.
PR: Hasankeyf Selected by Europa Nostra for 7 Most Endangered Program
Press Release, 16 March 2016
The historic town of Hasankeyf, located on the Upper Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, has been selected as one of Europe’s “7 Most Endangered” heritage sites for 2016. The announcement, which noted that Hasankeyf is one of Europe’s most important archaeological sites, was made today in Venice by Europa Nostra, Europe’s leading heritage organization, and the European Investment Bank Institute. Read the rest of this entry »
Dams and democracy: has the last word been said on Hasankeyf?
That modernization will provide a remedy to all ills is a founding Turkish Republican idea that has proven to be also the most resilient one.
HANDE PAKER 25 February 2016 Read the rest of this entry »
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