Turkey’s Biggest Dam Project Victim of Faltering Peace
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Construction work on two of Turkey’s biggest dam projects has ground to a halt, as the country pays a price for simmering tensions between Kurdish rebels and the government.
Since August, Kurdish rebels have set ablaze cement trucks, bombed power lines and kidnapped workers, leading construction companies to suspend work on the $3 billion Ilisu Dam and hydroelectric plant and a $3.5 billion irrigation project near the town of Silvan, according to contractors working on the projects.