Atatürk Dam
Dam on the River Euphrates, in the province of Gaziantep, southern Turkey, completed in 1989. The lake, 550 km/340 mi southeast of Ankara, covers 815 sq km/315 sq mi (when full, it holds four times the annual flow of the Euphrates). In 1990 it was filled for the first time, submerging 25 villages, all of whose 55,000 inhabitants were relocated.
It is the world's fifth largest dam, and is part of the Great Anatolia Project (GAP), which is designed to harness the power of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and provide irrigation water. The impact of the dam on river flow has caused tension with Iraq and Syria.
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