Land of the Lakes


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Looking south from Harran, before irrigation by the
Southeast Anatolia Project made the land fertile

LAND OF THE LAKES

by David Barchard

Photographs by Manuel Çitak

Foreword by Norman Stone

144pp hardback 324mmx264mm

Embossed cover with wrap around

jacket and ribbon

ISBN 978-0-9555376-2-2

Published March 2009 RRP £24.95

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David Barchard is a former journalist who now teaches at Bilkent University in Ankara. He specialises in 19th- and 20th-century Turkish history and Turkish-European relations

Manuel Çitak
is one of Turkey’s foremost photographers. Born in Malatya, he studied photography at the Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul and has been photographing Turkey for many years

Few places in the world have such a dazzling cultural legacy as southeastern Turkey, sometime home of Hittites, Assyrians, Parthians, Sassanids, Byzantines, Syriacs, Caliphates, Armenians, Kurds, Seljuqs and Ottomans.

Attention has been focused on the area for the past two decades as a huge and often controversial hydroelectric power scheme has dammed the Tigris and Euphrates, creating this Land of the Lakes and bringing new life to a formerly impoverished region.

Local communities have been displaced and archaeological sites flooded, but only now is it possible to begin to assess the longer-term effects of the project.

Beautifully ilustrated and sympathetically written,
Land of the Lakes is a real treasure....

Writer David Barchard and photographer Manuel Çitak (see left) brilliantly reveal the story of the rebirth of Southeast Anatolia in this elegant, large format, fully illustrated book designed by Clive Crook.

The foreword is by the eminent historian Norman Stone.

Land of the Lakes was sponsored by

the Nural and Cengiz Consortium