the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia Project to generate electricity, bolster the region’s economy, and irrigate rural areas.
Spending will be ramped up in the nine of Turkey’s 81 provinces that constitute the area close to the borders of Syria and Iraq, traditionally the poorest in the country, with funding to be provided ...
Wildfires in southeastern Turkey have claimed the lives of at least five people and injured dozens of others, according to the country's health minister. "Five people died and 44 were injured ...