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    Birecik is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 912 km2, and its population is 93,866 (2023). It lies on the Euphrates...
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    The Birecik Dam, one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, is located on the Euphrates River 60 km (37 mi) downstream of Atatürk...
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    The Birecik Dam Cemetery is an Early Bronze Age cemetery in the Gaziantep region in southeastern Turkey. This cemetery was used extensively for a very...
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    The Birecik Bridge is a 695 m (2,280 ft) long deck arch bridge carrying the D.400 across the Euphrates in Birecik, Turkey. The bridge is on the state...
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  • 2008, was preceded by Keban and Karakaya dams upstream and followed by Birecik and the Karkamış dams downstream. Two more dams on the river have been...
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    centred near the small town of Birecik in the southeast of the country, and during the first half of the 20th century, the Birecik colony maintained a relatively...
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    authors, this kebab was born out of a fusion of Turkish and Arab cultures. Birecik, once an important locality in the Eyalet of Aleppo, is said to be the...
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    Murat Karayılan (category People from Birecik)
    Murat Karayılan (Kurdish: Mirad Qarayîlan; born 5 June 1954 in Birecik, Şanlıurfa, Turkey), also nicknamed Cemal, was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan...
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    sporadically, but in 2000, the site would be flooded due to construction of the Birecik Dam. With only a fraction of the site excavated, archaeologists feared...
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  • 2 mi) southeast of the Turkish village of Esmesi that is in southernmost Birecik District. The Turkish government has highlighted that the relocation is...
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