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The tomb of Zeynep Bey is carried on a rolling structure on May 12, 2017, at Hasankeyf in Batman, as it is moved to stave off the risk of flooding from a dam project. Turkish authorities on Friday conducted a hugely ambitious and also controversial operation to move an over half- millenium old tomb to new location to stave off the risk of flooding from a dam project. The tomb of Zenyel Bey is a 15 th century memorial to one of the key figures in the Ak Koyunlu tribe who controlled much of eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus and vied for supremacy with the emerging Ottomans. (Photo by Ilyas Akengin/AFP Photo)
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