I would like to share the new World Heritage Watch Report 2018 which has
been published last week. It highlights UNESCO World Heritage (WH) Sites
across the world which are in danger or destruction.
In this report you can find a report by me and two friends from the
Platform No to the Destruction of Sur, based in Diyarbakir (Amed). It
describes how the UNESCO WH Site of Diyarbakir is still faced with
destruction and displacement. It is no more limited to Sur, the old and
walled city. The report treats also the commercialisation of the WH site
and in this framework the new housing projects.
In the World Heritage report are many other interesting contributions
like the one on the Iraqi/Mesopotamian Marshlands which are threatened
by the Ilisu dam and other dam projects of the Turkish and Iranian state.
Here you can download the full report:
https://www.world-heritage-watch.org/im ... rt_WHW.pdf
On June 22 and 23, 2018 there will be the International Civil Society
Forum on World Heritage in Manama/Bahrain where the report on Sur, the
Marshlands etc will be discussed. Just in the following days will be
organized the 42nd UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) Session in
Manama. At this session also the WH Site "Antique Villages in Northern
Syria will be subject. Parts of this site have been bombed by the
invading Turkish Army in January 2018 in Afrîn/Rojava.
Best regards
Ercan Ayboga
Platform No to the Destruction of Sur
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