Mount Cudi

“I gave cradles to Noah, / Swings and hammocks, / Your Mother Eve is but a child of yesterday, / I am Anatolia, / Do you know me?” writes the Diyarbakır poet Ahmed Arif in his poem ‘Anatolia’. Thinking of a land that gave cradles to Noah, one inevitably thinks of Mount Cudi; for according to tradition, after the Flood, Noah’s Ark came to rest on this very mountain…