Lost in the mountains Population: 21,100 Four km from the main Kars-Erzurum road, the mountain town of Kağızman…
Bordering Azerbaijan population: 101,700 Other names: Kaghzvan (Armenian), Qaxisman (Kurdish) Midway between Kars…
Mini Pamukkale Population:20,300 Diyadin is an unexceptional small town 7km south of…
Shadow of Mt Ararat Population: 86,000 Old name: Kurdava…
Roughly delineated by an imaginary line drawn south from Trabzon on the Black Sea coast through Erzincan to Tunceli and then heading east…
Turkey’s largest lake Other name: Gola Wane (Kurdish) A brief glance at a map of Eastern Turkey immediately reveals that its most conspicuous…
The Urartian capital of Tushpa Population: 511,000 (Van) – 348,000 (İpekyolu), 163,00 (Tuşba) Other name: Wane (Kurdish) Despite…
Five Minaret Country Population: 54,000 Throughout the 1990s, Bitlis hunkered down…
Population: 117,000 At first sight Muş, due east of Binğol in the southeast of Turkey, seems to consist of nothing more than a…
One Thousand Lakes? Population: 93,000 A provincial capital with a deceptively pretty name, Bingöl…