ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has started filling a huge hydroelectric dam on the Tigris river, a lawmaker and activists said, despite protests that it will displace thousands of people and risks ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will start filling the Ilisu dam on the Tigris river in June, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, despite protests from Iraq when the dam briefly began holding back ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – An official says a hatch inside a dam burst, causing flooding that has left 10 construction workers missing in southern Turkey. Gov. Huseyin Avni Cos of Adana province said ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — An enormous, 600-year-old tomb in Turkey's southeast has been moved to make way for a hydroelectric dam on the Tigris river. Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said the 15th-century ...

What happens when engineering ambition meets ecological reality? Turkey’s Ilisu Dam project is a perfect example of modern development challenges. Imagine a huge hydroelectric project on the Tigris ...

Explore the $1.7 billion Ilisu Dam in Turkey, a significant megaproject with substantial benefits to the local economy. However, its construction has drawn widespread controversy, prompting ...

TISHRIN DAM, Syria (AP) — A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups, which has intensified in the weeks since the fall ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a range of 7.7 million-year-old fossils near the Yamula Dam in central Turkey, shedding light on the region’s prehistoric past. The excavation, which began in 2018, ...

TISHRIN DAM, Syria (AP) — A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups. Over a thousand protesters from Kurdish areas in ...