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Article: Southeastern Anatolia Project
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- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
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SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIA PROJECT
A massive integrated regional development scheme for the Euphrates and Tigris river basins in Turkey (in Turkish, G
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ney Anadolu Projesi, or GAP).
The project area covers about 27,000 square miles (70,000 sq. km) in six provinces of the Anatolia region of Turkey, lying between the Anti-Taurus mountains and the border with Syria: Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Mardin, Sanliurfa, and Siirt. The project is designed to create economic, social, and spatial changes through the construction and integration of dams, hydroelectric power plants, and irrigation projects, and infrastructural improvements in transportation, health, education, and ...
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Article: TURKEY-SYRIA: EUPHRATES WATER ROW A FACTOR IN GOLAN ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;
January 8, 1996 ;
700+ words
... ... major sources of life for Turkey, Syria and Iraq but suddenly ... linked with allocation by Turkey of a greater share of the Euphrates' waters to Syria," warns the ministry ... the water issue between Turkey and Syria," says journalist Husnu ...
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