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Turkey seeks new life for submerged tourist town Hasankeyf

Only two roofs poke out of the vast expanse of an artificial lake that has swallowed an ancient Turkish town Hasankeyf that once drew in tourists with its pre-Ottoman ruins. The echoes of hammers banging stone and dust kicking up from construction sites around the Tigris River lake reveal a new city that is still a work in progress.