Most of the dams constructed by GAP will be smaller projects, but two are massive: the already-completed Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates near the town of Birejik, and the Ilisu on the Tigris just below Hasankeyf. ...
In Birejik in January 1896, about 96 men converted to Islam, and an equal number were killed. When one elderly man refused to convert to Islam, live coals were placed on his body. As he lay in pain, a Bible was held over him, ...
