Akçeli İşler

Super/Natural Stories of
a Çoruh Turning Sluggish

Çoruh, one of the world’s fastest flowing rivers, and its home basin have lately been undergoing massive changes. At the core of this transformation is… Read More

“No need to be afraid,
Yusufeli is a beautiful place”

The district center of Yusufeli, which will be submerged once the construction of the Yusufeli Dam is finalized, will be moved for the seventh time. … Read More

“Yusufeli is giving you its past and future”

District head of İyi Party and lawyer Recep Akyürek explains the Yusufeli Dam lawsuit which has been taken to the European Court of Human Rights… Read More

“Uncertainties are hanging above us like dark clouds”

Barış Demirci, a lawyer from Yusufeli, was a candidate from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in the 2019 Municipal Elections. The election resulted first in… Read More

“We hope that our grandchildren will not have to talk about the dams anymore”

Eyüp Aytekin, Yusufeli Mayor for the past three terms, talks about the problems of the district, which will be completely evicted when Yusufeli Dam is… Read More

“No doubt, we will meet again!”

As we stand glancing around at the village center, two people in front of a small shed, which seems like both a grocery and a… Read More

Living on the Danger Threshold

It’s a long story my girl, call me in the evening and we’ll talk then. This is Havuzlu, a village in Artvin’s Yusufeli… Read More

Yusufeli as a Construction Site

Uncertainties and Coping with Destruction:
Mukhtars of Artvin are Narrating

*This text consists of a collection of the phone interviews conducted with the mukhtars of settlements which have been or will be completely or partially… Read More

Now Nothing But a Name:
Vegetable Growers (Sebzeciler) Village

Routes accompanied by water perhaps make for the most enjoyable of journeys. In journeys of this kind, seas or rivers sometimes hide behind mountains or… Read More