Ilisu Dam: Impeding Sustainable Social Life and Denouement of the Civil (Rural) Architectural Settlements in the Water Collection Basin

If a group of people move away from their genuine settlements and geography to a new place, due to mass poverty, war, conflicts, earthquakes, landslides, floods or such similar disasters, we define this action as "migration". In the history, while some migrations cause the birth of new civilisations, today we discuss the possible destructive outcomes of the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant, which is planned to be build on Tigris (Dicle) River, on the social and cultural places that carry the values of the Mesopotamian civilisation. Together with the problems created by the dam, hundreds of rural settlements in the region created by the patterns of civil architecture and their histories will be covered with water. The author while transferring the results of her study conducted in the region, also puts forward her predictions related to the future of the region, which will eventually give way to new immigration dramas and stories. Thus to her view this action will be a significant attempt in legitimising the stultification of the sustainability of the social and historical life. (English summary by Derin Inan)