Subject: Re: Turkish exclave in Syria?<br/>
Date: Jan 19, 2002 @ 01:28<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-360365495"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; But the more recent site<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.syriagate.com/Syria/about/cities/Al_Raqqa/jaaber.htm">http://www.syriagate.com/Syria/about/cities/Al_Raqqa/jaaber.htm</a><br/>
&gt; says that the Syrians have since moved the tomb upstream.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Well, actually, on re-reading, it says it was moved, but not<br/>
necessarily by the Syrians. <br/>
And this site, later again, implies that the tomb was moved by the<br/>
*Turks* in 1975 because of damming on the Euphrates, and that it is<br/>
now to be protected by a coffer dam because of the building of yet<br/>
another Euphrates dam:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/06_20_01/for.htm#f5">http://www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/06_20_01/for.htm#f5</a><br/>
<br/>
So it was still Turkish enough in the middle of last year for them to<br/>
be spending big money on it.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>