Mount Mangal (Haymana)

“Galloping from farthest Asia / and jutting into the Mediterranean like a mare’s head, / this country is ours,” says Nazım Hikmet in his poem ‘Invitation’. Right in the middle of that mare’s head, in the heart of the steppe, stands a mountain that witnessed the days when a nation held its breath; its name is Mangal, and it rises above the Haymana plateau with ridges where the wind roams free…