(OECD Watch, Amsterdam, 20 August 2018) NCP finds company failed to do due diligence and breached the Guidelines at Turkey's Ilisu mega-dam. On 20 August 2018, the Dutch NCP released its...
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2018/08/29
Country: Netherlands, Turkey
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams, OECD, Transparency
2018/06/28
Country: Turkey
(Reuters, Ankara/Baghdad, 7 June 2018) Turkey has temporarily stopped filling a huge dam on the Tigris River after complaints from neighboring Iraq, which is suffering water shortages, officials said on Thursday. Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad and Iraq's water minister also said that the two...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
2015/09/30
Country: Turkey
(Hasankeyf Action Day, Hasankeyf, 20 September 2015) On September 20th, activists, social movements and NGO's joined an international action day for the conservation of Hasankeyf and the Tigris River. Protesting against the Ilisu Dam Project, a large demonstration took place in the 10.000 year...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams, Transparency
2013/05/29
Country: Turkey
(Damocracy, 21 May 2013) Representatives of dam-affected communities and international organizations from South America, the Middle East, Europe, the US, and Africa, today blocked the entrance to the construction site of the Ilisu dam in southeast Turkey demanding an end to the controversial...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
2013/03/29
Country: Turkey
(Save the Tigris, 22 March 2013) Press Release by Campaign to Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes. On the occasion of Austria's Andritz AG Annual General Meeting which is being held on World Water Day, the Save the Tigris campaign, a coalition of nongovernmental...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch
2013/01/30
(ECA Watch Austria, Istanbul, 10 January 2013) The Turkish State Council ruled on January 7 in favour of the legal case filed by the Chamber of Architects and Engineers (TMMOB) against the construction of the Ilisu dam project, ordering an immediate halt to the controversial dam construction in... more
Region: Middle East and North Africa
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
2012/09/30
(Nature Iraq, Sulaymaniyah,30 September 2012) A new construction phase was "celebrated" at the Ilisu dam site with a big ceremony last week: The Tigris river has been diverted at the construction site now flowing through three big tunnels. This diversion will be maintained for several years and... more
Region: Europe, Central Asia & Russia
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2010/06/12
(2010) This paper from Christine Eberlein (Berne Declaration...
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch
2010/02/02
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 12 February 2010) Turkish prime minister Erdogan announced that construction of the Ilisu dam would soon restart, despite a 3 February 2010 European Parliament resolution which demanded that Ilisu construction stop as part of Turkey's accession negotiations with the EU.
Country: Turkey
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Letters & statements
2008/03/19
(March 19, 2008) Joint Call to halt Ilisu Dam Development on the Occasion of the International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life 14 March 2008.
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Finance & Trade Watch, FERN, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, , urgewald
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2007/09/28
(September 28, 2007) A submission prepared in cooperation with members of the Ilisu Dam Campaign as a response to conditions published by financing export credit agencies. The report demonstrates that the project approval process for the Ilisu Dam was in breach of World Bank...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Large Dams
Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, FERN
2007/09/01
(ECA Watch, Paris, 27 September 2007) NGOs have released their analysis of the 150 conditions attached to the export credit guarantees granted by EulerHermes, SERV and OeKB for the Ilisu project. The report finds that: -... more
Country: Turkey
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Large Dams
Letters & statements
2007/06/08
Country: Belgium
(June 8, 2007) A delegation of representatives from the region Hasankeyf/Diyarbakir in Southeast Turkey visited Brussels from 15 to 17 June 2005 to discuss the planned Ilisu dam project in the context of Turkey’s process of accession to the European Union. The delegates say that...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2007/06/08
(June 8, 2007) In a workshop held on 11 May 2006, the European Parliament discussed the planned Ilisu dam project in the context of Turkey’s process of accession to the European Union.
Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN
Letters & statements
2007/05/15
(15 May 2007) It has been reported in Die Presse, the Austrian newspaper, that the Iraqi Foreign Minister wrote to the European Commission protesting against the Ilisu Dam and demanding the EC's intervention. FERN has obtained the letter and, on 15.5.2007, wrote to...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: European Union, Large Dams
Member: FERN