Keban and Uzunçayır, the Dam Lakes of Tunceli
Say Tunceli and mountains, valleys and the Munzur come to mind first. Yet on the province's map, two large expanses of water also stand out. One is in the south, Keban Dam Lake.
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The Red-Spotted Trout of the Munzur River
To get to know a river in Tunceli, you first need to understand its cold, its clarity and its speed. The Munzur River brings all three together in a single valley, and its best-known resident is the red-spotted trout.
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Cas Houses, Siirt's Distinctive Building Language
Walking through the old neighbourhoods of Siirt, the first thing you notice is the posture of the houses. The walls are stone, and the surface is covered with a gypsum-based plaster.
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The Castle Line at the Threshold of Cilicia Toprakkale, Hemite and Savranda
Structures on the threshold Osmaniye stands on the eastern edge of the Çukurova plain, on a threshold where the foothills of the Taurus and Amanos descend to the lowlands.
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The Bilingual Inscriptions of Karatepe and Halet Çambel's Conservation Legacy
The quiet centuries of a border fortress Karatepe-Aslantaş lies in the Kadirli district of Osmaniye, in a forested area where the foothills of the Taurus meet the Çukurova plain.
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The Muş Plain and Its Two Rivers, the Murat and the Karasu
If you could look down on Muş from above, you would see a wide, flat, green layer surrounded by mountains.
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The Muş Tulip, the Short-Lived Spring of the Plain
When the snow retreats and the soil begins to warm at the end of April, a red stir begins at the field edges of the Muş plain.
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Sulu Cave and the Mining Gallery Inside the Rock
On the northwest side of Keskin, on a hillside, there is a cave whose entrance looks small. Sulu Cave differs from the purely natural formations that come to mind when we say cave.
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The Büklükale Excavations and the Hittite City at the Kızılırmak Crossing
When the road from Ankara toward Kaman approaches the Kızılırmak, a rocky hill rises on the riverbank. Büklükale is the name of this rock and of the settlement spread around it.
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The Urban Story of Kilis, from Village to Trading Town
Kilis is one of the smaller provinces of Turkey today, but its journey as a town is long.
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Kilis Cuisine and Its Registered Flavours
Kilis lies in the south of Anatolia, at the edge of a small plain below the Kefiz Mountain. Its cuisine, however, is far larger than the size of the town would suggest.
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Domuztepe and the World of the Halaf
On the Maraş plain, between Kahramanmaraş and Gaziantep, a mound rises today in the middle of farmland. From the surface it says little more than a low hill.
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Maraş Ice Cream and the Story of Its Geographical Indication
When does the name of a product become tied to the name of a city? For Kahramanmaraş, the shortest answer is ice cream. But a name being linked to a flavour is not the same as that link being recorded officially.
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Sürmeli Çukuru and the Nature of the Iğdır Plain
What first surprises a visitor to Iğdır is a wide, flat plain with ranges of mountains rising right behind it.
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Iğdır Apricot and the Story of Its Geographical Indication
Anyone who visits Iğdır in summer or autumn quickly notices the bond between this city and the apricot. You see it at the market and along the edges of the orchards.
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The Story of the Glaciers in the Cilo Mountains
In the far southeast of Turkey, mountain ranges rising above four thousand metres above sea level are in places covered with snow and ice all year.
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The Crown Imperial of Hakkari
When people think of Hakkari, they think first of high mountains, glaciers and lakes.
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Çankırı and Salt, a Bond of Five Thousand Years
When people think of Çankırı, they think of salt first. The rock salt galleries that lie east of the city, within the boundaries of Balıbağı Village, are the underground source of that memory.
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The Story of Bingöl Mountain and Its Thousand Lakes
A province's name often stays on a signboard. In Bingöl, however, the name is a direct summary of a mountain rising above the province and of the countless small lakes on that mountain's back.
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Bingöl Honey and Highland Beekeeping
A product name can describe the map of a province.
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From the Bedesten to the Ali Paşa Bazaar, the Vaulted Markets of Edirne
In the centre of Edirne, three Ottoman buildings close to one another tell the story of the city's commercial architecture: the Bedesten, the Ali Paşa Bazaar and the Rüstem Paşa Caravanserai.
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The Vanished Ottoman Palace of Sarayiçi
In the north of Edirne, on the banks of the Tunca River, there is a wide open area today, with stone bridges and scattered ruins. Once, the second Ottoman palace in Edirne stood here.
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From Boztepe to Paşaoğlu Mansion, Ordu's Viewpoint and Mansion Line
Ordu is a city squeezed between the sea and the slope. Behind the centre stretching along the coast, the sloping neighbourhoods rise and invite you to look at the city from above. This article describes a one-day line.
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Ünye Castle and Its Rock Tombs, the Ancient Black Sea Face of Ordu
One of the things that sets Ünye apart from its neighbours on the Black Sea coast is the steep mass of rock rising behind the town.
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