Cilo Dağı
Description
The craggy massif Mount Cilo is 30 km (19 miles) long and builds the western part of the Hakkari Cilo-Sat Mountains National Park which was established in 2020. The mountains are characterized by an extremely rugged topography with high, pointed summits, sharp and jagged ridges, very steep or even occasionally vertical rock (primarily limestone) cliffs/walls and deep gorges and a few glaciers which are losing their volume and retreating since last decades due to global warming! The massif's second (and Turkey's third at all) highest peak Suppa Durek, a.k.a. Erinç Tepe (4,116 m (13,504 ft)), is located in the immediate vicinity (4 km (2.5 miles) to its west). In 1984, the area was closed to civilians because of the presence and activity of the separatist terror organization PKK. It was not until 2002 that a team of mountaineers was authorized to climb again the Cilo mountains.
See also
References
- ^ The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia. University of Michigan p. 920
- ^ Brockhaus, Enzyklopädie in 30 Bänden, Vol. 28. Mannheim 2006, p. 117, s.v. Türkei.
- ^ www.tuerkei-kultur-info.de
- ^ Hürriyet, 28. September 2002