DIYARBAKIR - The "reclamation project" started on the Tigris River in Diyarbakir has reached to Fiskaya area. Notifications were sent to the residents in Feritköşk Neighbourhood by reasoning the project.  

 

The tracks show the destruction clearly in Tigris Valley where is declared as "Special Project Site" by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning. In Tigris Valley, that the forests are destroyed and sand quarries pollute, now "Dicle River Reclamation Project" has been started by DSI (Directorate of State Hydraulic Works).

 

In the context of the project started beginning of 2018, hundreds of trees were cut. The River which is polluted with sand quarries and creek bed is spoiled is damaged more by this project. The project, which started on the bridge with the police point on Seyrantepe road, destroyed the habitat of the hundreds of living creatures in the river after months. The diggers, which open space for the new sand quarries and project areas, carrying out the ecological destruction.

 

It is not known how long this ecological destruction that supported by Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Urban Planning Directorates and executed by Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning and DSI diggers, will be carried out. The project does not include any information about what will happen to living creatures. The Tigris Valley, however, is a home for the extinct living creatures. The 46 fish species and birds species are face to face with extinction.   

 

Within the scope of the project, the citizens who live in the Fiskaya district were sent a notice of "Evacuate your houses" by Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality. After the risky area decision,  the families reacting to the notifications sent within the context of the reclamation project and say, "We can not sleep anymore. They tell us to get out of here. They have been doing everything to migrate us from here for years. How can a notice under the name of reclamation can be sent to people. Will they reclaim people, too?”.