Continuing controversy over Turkey's Ilisu Dam
A. June 20 2008 ECA meeting with NGOs reveals many serious problems (PDF)
A. June 20 2008 ECA meeting with NGOs reveals many serious problems (PDF)
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 20 June 2008) Committee of Experts members and ECA officials met with Ilisu Dam campaigners to update them, confirming many of the problems highlighted in their February 2008 report. Austrian, Swiss and German ECAs believe the project will be built anyway and wish to influence the project positively, despite the almost complete lack of preparation of resettlement, rehabilitation and environmental mitigation plans. NGOs provided evidence of further violations of the project's Terms of Reference since the CoE December 2007 site visit and the March 2008 Financial Times expose of opposition to the dam.
B. Italian lawyers visit to Ilisu area 11-13 July 2008 finds serious problems
(CRBM, Rome, 30 July 2008) During a visit to the Ilisu area, Italian lawyers interviewed local lawyers, community associations and expropriated villagers to gather material for Italian legal action.
C. Italian NGOs protest Unibank Ilisu plans at 17 July 2008 demonstration in Milan
(CRBM, Rome, 29 July 2008) Italian campaigners against the Ilisu dam in Turkish Kurdistan protested 17 July 2008 in the Piazza Cordusio, Milan, in front of the headquarters of Unicredit bank. Extensive media coverage and support from Italian MEP Vittorio Agnoletto convinced Unicredit bank officials to meet with a delegation of activists and they fixed a date for a meeting with their respective lawyers to discuss the reasons why the network is against the Ilisu project.
A. June 20 2008 ECA meeting with NGOs reveals many serious problems (PDF)
(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 20 June 2008) Committee of Experts members and ECA officials met with Ilisu Dam campaigners to update them, confirming many of the problems highlighted in their February 2008 report. Austrian, Swiss and German ECAs believe the project will be built anyway and wish to influence the project positively, despite the almost complete lack of preparation of resettlement, rehabilitation and environmental mitigation plans. NGOs provided evidence of further violations of the project's Terms of Reference since the CoE December 2007 site visit and the March 2008 Financial Times expose of opposition to the dam.
B. Italian lawyers visit to Ilisu area 11-13 July 2008 finds serious problems
(CRBM, Rome, 30 July 2008) During a visit to the Ilisu area, Italian lawyers interviewed local lawyers, community associations and expropriated villagers to gather material for Italian legal action.
C. Italian NGOs protest Unibank Ilisu plans at 17 July 2008 demonstration in Milan
(CRBM, Rome, 29 July 2008) Italian campaigners against the Ilisu dam in Turkish Kurdistan protested 17 July 2008 in the Piazza Cordusio, Milan, in front of the headquarters of Unicredit bank. Extensive media coverage and support from Italian MEP Vittorio Agnoletto convinced Unicredit bank officials to meet with a delegation of activists and they fixed a date for a meeting with their respective lawyers to discuss the reasons why the network is against the Ilisu project.