Development: What’s in a name? Nurcan Baysal Published in Academicus International Scientific Journal ISSN 2079-3715 Introduction When you talk about development, it is important to reflect on what one understands by ‘development’. Development can be about economics, personal development, human rights, individual freedom, politics and many more things. And even more important, we have to […]
Diyarbakır, 22 July 2008 OVERALL STATE IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN ANATOLIA PROJECT First launched in 1980, the South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) was initially conceptualized as a programme geared to the development of land and water resources in the region and it was envisaged to build 19 hydraulic power stations and 22 dams along the rivers Euphrates […]
DIYARBAKIR TODAYAs published in Radikal 2 newspaper on 03/01/2010 Panzer tanks are a permanent part of Diyarbakır ’s streets Two days left till 2010. Diyarbakır ’s very sad today. I worked at the office till noon, and went shopping to get New Year’s gifts for the kids at my lunch hour. I went to the […]
As published in Birikim magazine, number 254, 2010 On the 1st of February, the story of Asliye and Zeynep who died on the road to buy books, appeared in the daily papers as a small ‘fait divers’. Asliye and Zeynep drowned while walking in Capakcur Stream because they did not have 1 TL to […]