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    The Birecik Dam, one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, is located on the Euphrates River 60 km (37 mi) downstream of Atatürk...
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    The Birecik Dam Cemetery is an Early Bronze Age cemetery in the Gaziantep region in southeastern Turkey. This cemetery was used extensively for a very...
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    Birecik is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 912 km2, and its population is 93,866 (2023). It lies on the Euphrates...
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    villages were submerged in the 1990s under the waters behind the dam on the Euphrates at Birecik. The town was therefore moved to the village of Karaotlak....
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  • Southeastern Anatolia Project (category Dams in Turkey)
    of 22 Dams (year of completion): Euphrates Basin Atatürk Dam (1992) Birecik Dam (2000) Büyükçay Dam Çamgazi Dam (1998) Çetintepe Dam Gömikan Dam Hancağız...
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    to preserve ancient mosaics that would otherwise be inundated by the Birecik Dam. Packard was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2006. David...
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    Project and ruins found in the hydroelectric dam reservoirs of Atatürk Dam, Birecik Dam and Karkamış Dam. Both museums are located at Haleplibahçe Mahallesi...
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    reservoir of the Birecik Dam has generated much controversy in both the Turkish and international press. The construction of the Tabqa Dam in Syria led to...
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    fortress, now situated across a peninsula created by the reservoir of Birecik Dam and within the administrative boundaries of Gaziantep's Nizip district...
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  • upstream and followed by Birecik and the Karkamış dams downstream. Two more dams on the river have been under construction. The dam embankment is 169 m high...
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