25 April 2015 / Hasankeyf , Turkey
Hasankeyf is an ancient town located along the Tigris River not far away from the city of Batman. Hasankeyf is very rich in history. Thousands of caves exist in the surrounding cliffs and some of them have been in use until the 1980s. Churches and mosques were also carved into the cliffs. Assyrians/Syriacs and Arab Christian families lived here. Today mostly Kurdish people live here. The town and its archeological sites will be flooded with the completion of the Ilisu Dam.