Places to visit in Hakkari
4 places from Hakkari province are on the map: Cilo Mountains, Mergan Plateau, Hakkari & Mount Sümbül, and Zap Valley & Çukurca. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Cilo Mountains
Are there glaciers in Turkey? Most people who ask think the answer is no; yet in the mountains of Hakkari, on the northern slopes of Cilo, tongues of ice still creep slowly downhill…
See on the map →Mergan Plateau
Would you like to feel cold in July? Then you must climb up to Mergan Plateau. At the foot of Cilo, at two thousand five hundred meters, this broad highland pasture has a coolness that sets…
See on the map →Hakkari & Mount Sümbül
In Ferit Edgü’s novel, later known as ‘A Season in Hakkari’, a teacher spends a winter in a remote village among the mountains. Snow, solitude, mountains and people… Edgü’s spare, short…
See on the map →Zap Valley & Çukurca
How many countries’ histories can a river carry? The Great Zap rises in the mountains of Hakkari, carves deep valleys on its way south, and joins the Tigris on Iraqi soil. In every bend…
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