DEVELOPMENT AND TRUST

"Trust and Development in Upper Mesopotamia: Social Impacts of GAP (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi)" is an anthropological research project run by Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies of University of Zurich in cooperation with the Department of Sociology of Middle East Technical University, Ankara... GAP (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, Southeast Anatolia Project) is a large scale integrated regional project, one of the most ambitious development schemes of the Republic of Turkey. GAP involves irrigation and hydro electric power generation development by a system of more than 20 large dams and lakes on the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and their tributaries, as well.

Primary location: Zurich