More than 20 cultures have lived in Hasankeyf, with the Ottomans finally bequeathing it to modern Turkey.
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Hasankeyf is an ancient town on the banks of the Tigris in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
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Although more than a million tourists visited Hasankeyf last year, it may soon be lost forever. Much of the city and its archeological sites are at risk of being flooded with the completion of the Ilisu Dam.
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The largest of Turkey’s hydroelectric projects, the 1,200-megawatt Ilisu Dam is expected to be completed by 2013.
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Archeologists believe Hasankeyf, which dates back some 10,000 years, may be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world.
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The threat of the Ilisu Dam project prompted the World Monuments Fund to list the city on its 2008 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites in the world.
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An expansive graveyard on the top of the hill, the headstones inscribed in Arabic, reminds visitors of the generations who have called this site home.
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While the Turkish government has proposed moving 12 of Hasankeyf's 300 monuments to a newly created cultural park about a mile north of the city, many argue that the plan is too small in scale and impractical given the condition of many of the site’s monuments.
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