*[Enwl-eng] [climate justice now!] Fwd: [WSMDiscuss] Sign Ilisu/Hasankeyf call

Tue May 14 18:35:36 MSK 2019

Просьба подписать заявление против строительства ГЭС в Турецком Курдистане.

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
URGENT APPEAL to sign Ilisu/Hasankeyf call against the Ilisu Dam in Turkish-Kurdistan

Please write to hasankeyfgirisimi at gmail.com !

            In solidarity !

            Jai

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  From: "Zor Ekologiko Batzordea \(Ekologistak Martxan\) via WSM-Discuss" <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>

  Subject: [WSMDiscuss] Sign Ilisu/Hasankeyf call

  Date: May 14, 2019 at 7:19:26 AM EDT

  To: Discussion list about emerging world social movement <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>

  Cc: "Zor Ekologiko Batzordea \(Ekologistak Martxan\)" <zor.ekologikoa at gmail.com>

  Reply-To: Discussion list about emerging world social movement <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>

  Dear all,

  i would like to ask the your organizations/movements to sign the attached call (also pasted further down) against the Ilisu Dam in Turkish-Kurdistan. Recently the Turkish government has announced to start with the filling of the dam reservoir on June 10, 2019. If the filling starts in June, the 12.000 years old and famous town Hasankeyf would be flooded by raising water levels in October 2019.
  Despite this we have not lost our hope and would like to go to the international publicas much as possible. For that we want to have as many as organizations supporting us.

  Can you reply to us until Monday, latest Tuesday? Please write to me (e.ayboga at gmx.net) or better to hasankeyfgirisimi at gmail.com

  After the release of the call we will continue to take signees for the call. So organizations which can not decide until Tuesday, can do it later. 

  Maybe in the next weeks we will organize an international action day. We will inform you for the case that you join can it.

  Please do not spread this call until we will release it on Tuesday (or latest Wednesday).

  Best wishes
  Ercan Ayboga
  Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive
  Mesopotamia Ecology Movement

  +++ International Urgent Call +++

  It‘s not too late to save Hasankeyf and Tigris River!
  No filling of the Ilisu Dam Reservoir!

  For 12.000 years, Hasankeyf in the Southeast of Turkey has been a site of uninterrupted human settlement. With the labour of dozen of cultures this outstanding universal site has been created on the banks of the Tigris River and adjacent small valleys and rocks. The recent excavations show that in Hasankeyf lies on top of a huge uncovered cultural heritage. Independent researchers state that Hasankeyf and the surrounding Tigris Valley are as important historically as Ephesus, Troy and Capaddoccia and fulfill 9 out of the 10 UNESCO criteria for a World Heritage Site. It is assumed that Hasankeyf is the twin of Göbeklitepe, a sanctuary site 225 km to the west with a similar age which led to globally new conclusions on first human settling in history.

  While the Turkish government achieved the inclusion of Göbeklitepe in UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Hasankeyf and the surrounding Tigris Valley is planned to be flooded by the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Project, which is almost constructed. In recent statements the Turkish government announced to start with the filling of the Ilisu dam reservoir on June 10, 2019. Officials add that in October 2019 Hasankeyf town would be affected by the raising water level.

  The Ilisu Project was and is a completely wrong and destructive investment. That is why since the beginning the project is strongly opposed not only at the local level in Turkey, but also in Iraq-Syria and globally. Contrary to official claims, the dam would have no socio-economic or any other benefit for the majority of society in the affected region and up to 80.000 people would loose their livelihoods. Apart from Hasankeyf an important part of the not yet excavated cultural heritage in Upper Mesopotamia along the Tigris River would be flooded. The biodiversity of the Tigris River ecosystem – still mainly natural – would be degraded significantly. The Ilisu Project would also gravely affect the downstream stretches of the Tigris, seriously jeopardizing the water supply of major Iraqi towns and Iraqi agriculture would be put under serious risk. In particular the UNESCO site of Mesopotamian Marshes in South Iraq would be threatened with drying out due to reduced downstream flows.

  In the last few years, the government’s program of so called “monument relocation and consolidation of rocks" has seriously damaged the cultural heritage in Hasankeyf. But still there is so much cultural heritage to rescue. 

  Despite the project nearing completion, we believe strongly that the cancellation of the Ilisu project would stimulate a process from which the broader local population, Turkey and Iraq would benefit directly, economically as well as socially and culturally. 

  We call upon on the Turkish government not to start the filling by the Ilisu Dam, either in June or later. Instead a new broad, participative and transparent discussion with all representatives of the local population on the future of the affected five provinces should be started. Based on the common outcomes, policies on the future of the Tigris Valley and the surrounding region should be implemented. Another condition should be the achievement of a mutual agreement with Iraq and Syria according to international law which should guarantee sufficient water flows until the Mesopotamian Marshes.

  We call all people and organizations all around the world, supportive with our demands, to to do similar calls on the Turkish government!

  A call by:
  Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, Turkey
  Save the Tigris Campaign, Iraq
  Humat Dijlah, Iraq
  Mesopotamia Ecology Movement, Turkey
  Waterkeeper Iraq
  ICSSI, Iraq
  Iraqi Social Forum, Iraq
  UPP – Un Ponte Per, Italy
  ...

  Contact:
  Website: www.hasankeyfgirisimi.net
  Email: hasankeyfgirisimi at gmail.com

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От: Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net>
Date: вт, 14 мая 2019 г. в 21:24
Subject: [climate justice now!] Fwd: [WSMDiscuss] Sign Ilisu/Hasankeyf call

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Subject: Fwd: [climate justice now!] Fwd: [WSMDiscuss] Sign Ilisu/Hasankeyf call

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