The people living there should have an upgrade in their living situation for their displacement. Their plight is real and should not be ignored. However, there should've been a period between when...
The people living there should have an upgrade in their living situation for their displacement. Their plight is real and should not be ignored. However, there should've been a period between when they leave and when they fill where archeologists could've had full run of the place. 11,000 years is a lot of history. The good news is it'll be there waiting in hundreds or thousands of years when the dam is gone for those archeologists.
It's a tragedy because of its historic value alone but what made me realize the full impact is the "replacement housing" the Turkish government has provided. Besides the fact that people...
It's a tragedy because of its historic value alone but what made me realize the full impact is the "replacement housing" the Turkish government has provided. Besides the fact that people apparently can't even afford the move (!?), imagine spending all your life living in a Hallstadt-level postcard picture paradise and then being forced to move into soulless, matching prefab houses. This is just taking a huge dump on thousands of years of culture and completely ignores that people might consider "home" to be more than 4 walls and a roof. It really makes me sad to think about.
The idea of Middle Eastern culture, in the last century called 'The Orient' by western scholars, is poetically and laconically covered in a novel, Compass , by Mathias Enard.
The idea of Middle Eastern culture, in the last century called 'The Orient' by western scholars, is poetically and laconically covered in a novel, Compass , by Mathias Enard.
The people living there should have an upgrade in their living situation for their displacement. Their plight is real and should not be ignored. However, there should've been a period between when they leave and when they fill where archeologists could've had full run of the place. 11,000 years is a lot of history. The good news is it'll be there waiting in hundreds or thousands of years when the dam is gone for those archeologists.
It's a tragedy because of its historic value alone but what made me realize the full impact is the "replacement housing" the Turkish government has provided. Besides the fact that people apparently can't even afford the move (!?), imagine spending all your life living in a Hallstadt-level postcard picture paradise and then being forced to move into soulless, matching prefab houses. This is just taking a huge dump on thousands of years of culture and completely ignores that people might consider "home" to be more than 4 walls and a roof. It really makes me sad to think about.
The idea of Middle Eastern culture, in the last century called 'The Orient' by western scholars, is poetically and laconically covered in a novel, Compass , by Mathias Enard.