The desperate situation of the town of Hasankeyf

Heskef resort, Diyarbakir Turkey

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Our correspondent Hatice Kamer reports from Diyarbakir on the latest regarding presidents Trump and Erdogan meetings. After decades of legal wrangling, Turkish authorities have begun flooding a 12,000-year-old town as part of a dam project to power the region. Hasankeyf is one of the oldest sites of continuous human settlement on Earth.



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