Real Estate Turkey

The vast, high plateau of Eastern Turkey is dominated by the extinct volcano of Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı), which soars to a height of 5165m (16945ft). The surface of Lake Van reflects the summits of the surrounding peaks. Trapped bye the mountains, the lake has no outflow. In the south, the eastern extension of the Taurus range crumbles suddenly into the sun-baked Mesopotamian plain.
The region is drained bye two great rivers-the Euphrates(Fırat) and Tigris(dicle)- as well as their tributaries.
For centuries, the Euphrates demarcated the eastern frontier of the Roman and Byzantine empires.
Today, the rivers have been harnessed bye the Southeast Anatolian Project (GAP) to supply the southeastern part of the country with irrigation water and hydro-electric power.
The border zoon has always been acultural melting pot-Monophysite Christian Armenians and Syrians living alongside Orthodox Greeks and later Arabs and Turks, While Kurds have long occupied the highlands.
Modern, bustling Gaziantep is the gateway from the southeast, leading to the golden apricot orchards of Malatya, the huge stone heads on the summit of Mount Nemrut(Nemrut dağı), and Abraham's legendary birthplace at Şanlıurfa. Diyarbakır's austere Tigris, guarding the road north to the interior plateau.
Van was once the seat of the sophisticated Urartian Kingdom. The rough frontier town of Doğubeyazıt was home to fiercely independent Kurdish princes. Kars, 10th-century capiyal of Armenian and access point for Ani, has been fought over many times by Russians and Turks.
During World War I, Russian forces retached as far west as Erzurum, a Seljuk city with imposing mrdieval tombs and religious buildings, which guards the strategic highway into