環保人士和人權運動者14日在昔日分隔東西柏林的布蘭登堡門前示威，表示他們反對在土耳其底格里斯河興建伊利蘇（Ilisu）水壩。環保和人權組織抗議的是德國政府給予德國Zueblin工程公司的出口信用保證。
在底格里斯河上的伊利蘇水力發電計畫是土耳其最大的水壩計畫。這個水壩將會形成一個面積313平方公里的水庫，將淹沒超過90個村莊以及一個古老城鎮哈桑凱依夫（Hasankeyf），影響超過5萬5千人，主要是庫德族人。
根據土耳其的規畫，水壩產生的12億瓦水力發電，將能提供土耳其日漸成長的能源所需，以及刺激安那托利亞省（Anatolia）的經濟。
德國政府表示，因這個水壩興建而受到影響的民眾，其將來的收入補貼、等值土地的轉讓，以及現代化房舍和設施的新村落的建立，都在規畫中。所有計畫和測量都是依據世界銀行的國際認可標準而設。而哈桑凱依夫的文化遺跡，應該會被一項即將通過的新法保護，而且將有機會將藝術遺產移至新的文化公園。
「拯救哈桑凱依夫行動」的艾波雅（Ercan Ayboga） 表示：「這些大型水庫已經讓土耳其東南方的居民受夠多的苦了，在我們這個地區的每個人都反對伊利蘇計畫。」環境和發展組織WEED的德利奇（Heike Drillisch） 說：「這個計畫危害國際規範和國際法。如果是在德國，根本不可能興建這種水壩。」
Environmental and human rights activists today demonstrated at the Brandenburg Gate that once separated East and West Berlin to show their opposition to the planned Ilisu dam on the Tigris River in Turkey. The environment and human rights organizations were protesting the grant of an export credit guarantee to the German engineering company Zueblin by the German government.
The Ilisu hydroelectric power project on the Tigris River is the largest planned dam project in Turkey. The dam will create a reservoir of 313 square kilometers, will flood more than 90 villages and the ancient town of Hasankeyf, and affect up to 55,000 people, mainly ethnic Kurds.
According to Turkey’s projections, the 1,200 MW hydroelectric project will contribute to meeting the country’s increased energy demand and stimulate the economy of the province of Anatolia.
For the population affected by the construction of the dam, measures such as income support, transfer of land of equal value, and construction of new villages with modern houses and infrastructure are planned, the German government said. All plans and measures are modelled on the internationally acknowledged standards set by the World Bank.
The cultural monuments of Hasankeyf are supposedly to be protected by a new law to be passed in the near future that will make it possible to rescue and relocate the works of art of the town to a new cultural park.
"The people in southeast Turkey have experienced enough grief with mega dams," says Ercan Ayboga from the Initiative to Save Hasankeyf. "Practically everyone in our region opposes the Ilisu project." "The project hurts international standards and international law," said Heike Drillisch of the environmental and development organization WEED. "In Germany it could be never built."
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