24th February 2011, 12:05 PM
Good day Kevin. Agreed...... one potential avenue of leverage would be Turkeys` application for membership of the European Union. Any existing Member of such would find difficulties in justifying a rejection of mitigation seemingly out of hand. As a PR exercise alone, a turn around by Turkey at this stage would go some way towards convincing Europe that tangible change is indeed on the cards. Involvement at this stage by academics may be useful but needs augmentation through the involvement of other agencies. An exercise in "persistant" lobbying accompanied by/with media coverage should at the very least-raise awareness. It would be worth identifying just where these alleged dams are planned and producing informed impact assessments independently of any similar measures undertaken by the Turkish Authorities. Of course, any collection of interested parties foreign to Turkey will by default be straying into challanging political territory by doing so. What International entities are there out there that would take a stand on this issue? What heritage/conservation bodies would be willing to become involved? Before any of this............what evidence do we have that the statements made in the news and heard by Gnomey are based in fact?:face-approve: