Halfeti is a picturesque town on the Euphrates river in the south east of Turkey, however our day exploring this town didn't go well and it made us change our future van life plans Trump invokes ...

The nation’s plan to control its most precious resource includes a controversial dam that will drown some of its history. The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River.

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ANKARA, December 12. /TASS/. Turkey may soon launch a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the Turkish Defense Industry Summit in ...

ANKARA, December 25. /TASS/. Ankara plans to enter Syria’s areas east of the Euphrates River as soon as possible, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. "If Turkey says that ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide. Fired clay brick stamped with the name ...

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region, which was ...

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