The historic Hevsel Gardens in Turkey’s Kurdish southeastern Diyarbakir province has been opened to construction with an emergency decree law by the government. The 7,000 year site near the shores of the Tigris river became a World Heritage Site in 2015 along with Diyarbakir Fortress next to it. Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape, 2009 [Credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/WikiCommons]The historical Hevsel Gardens...

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