What happens when engineering ambition meets ecological reality? Turkey’s Ilisu Dam project is a perfect example of modern development challenges. Imagine a huge hydroelectric project on the Tigris ...

The Ilisu Dam in Turkey is set to inundate Hasankeyf, a 12,000-year-old Kurdish heritage site with untold archaeological value.(Alexandra Marvar) Since the early 2000s, a massive hydropower project in ...

VIENNA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The future of a controversial 1.2 billion euro dam project in south eastern Turkey looked in doubt on Tuesday after foreign backers for the dam ordered work stopped as it ...

ANKARA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Turkey's Environment Minister Veysel Eroglu said on Wednesday the government would press ahead with its planned Ilisu dam project on the Tigris and had secured credit from ...