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Turkey Vows to Build Controversial Dam Despite Iraqi Complaints, Loss of European Support Posted by TreeHugger 1 year 18 weeks ago - Tags: 
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The Tigris River winds its way through Diyarbakır, irrigating a small area of green agricultural land in a largely arid region.
In the height of summer, the "great river" Tigris looks more like a lazy stream as it passes beneath the 1,500-year-old black-basalt city walls of Diyarbakır, in southeastern Turkey. It's almost hard to believe the river is one of the key water sources for all of Mesopotamia, the region including parts of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq -- but easy to see how it has become the subject of so much dispute....
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