1,800 years on, water diverts in Turkey's southeast remain riddle

1,800 years on, water diverts in Turkey's southeast remain riddle

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The water channels of Zerzevan Castle, a site on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Temporary rundown, fabricated so complicatedly 1,800 years prior in the southeastern area of Diyarbakır's Çınar region stays a riddle right up 'til today.

The Zerzevan Castle, found 13 kilometers from focal Çınar in the Demirölçek neighborhood, was utilized as a military settlement in the Roman period.

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Based on a territory of six hectares, the Zerzevan Castle lights up the historical backdrop of northern Mesopotamia with its 15-meter-high and 1,200-meter-long dividers, 21-meter-high watchtower and church, water channels and 54 storages.

A huge number of huge amounts of water have been aggregated throughout the years in the reservoirs through the water channels, which are about 8.5 kilometers long.

The Roman Empire utilized all the innovation around then in the water channels that have made due without losing their capacities, said Aytaç Coşkun, a scholastic from Dicle University and leader of the Zerzevan Castle removal board.

"The reservoir takes four tons of water, however has a profundity of around 21 meters. Somewhere in the range of 80 percent of the reservoir is under the ground, and after certain works, all will be uncovered," Coşkun noted.

Expressing that the closest water source is found 8.5 kilometers away, the scholastic said how the water was brought to the manor is a puzzle.

"What we cannot deny is that multi-millimeter slants were utilized. The channel has a profundity of 1.5 meters in certain spots and the water originating from the source was brought into the mansion through these sections," he noted.

"What sort of an innovation and what sort of framework was utilized, that is a puzzle," he included.

The military settlement is situated on a 124-meter-high rough slope on an antiquated course in the key point between Amida, present day Diyarbakır, and Dara, close to present day Mardin.

Because of its area, the Zerzevan Castle overwhelmed the entire valley, and in this way was a key Roman army and a scene of incredible military showdowns between the Romans and the Sassanians.

Development on Salda Lake sea shore flashes rage

Development on Salda Lake sea shore flashes rage

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Development takes a shot at the sea shore of a renowned lake, which has been rumored as "Turkey's Maldives" its white sand and clear water, have started open fierceness, inciting actin from the legislature.

The comapnyi, which embraced the development of an open nursery in Salda Lake in the southern region of Burdur's Yeşilova locale, utilized its overwhelming hardware on the sea shore, harming the sand.

Salda Lake - Maldives of Turkey

Lawful objections have been petitioned for the cancelation of both the delicate and the improvement plans for the lake, one of the two spots where oxygen-delivering single-cell cyanobacteria despite everything live on the planet.

Tuncay Koç, one of the legal counselors who documented the grievance in the interest of five residents living in Yeşilova, said that a solicitation for the cancelation of the delicate was excused by the Council of State with a record pace.

Communicating that the firm utilized the boycott forced on the flare-up days to evade open response, Koç said that going into the region by trucks demonstrated that the estimation of the lake was not increased in value by the firm.

"The organization needs to exploit the time limit, yet the eyes of people in general are on this region," he told day by day Hürriyet. "We have documented a criminal grievance against those dependable."

The lake is shut to guests due to the coronavirus flare-up.

Condition and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum said that the pictures of overwhelming vehicles on the lake's sea shores additionally irritated him.

"That picture hurt me, much the same as it did everyone," he disclosed to Hürriyet day by day on April 14.

"We won't permit such missteps while attempting to ensure our normal magnificence and be so touchy."

The pastor expressed that all individuals and foundations that had a job in the outrage have been rebuffed.

"We will work with a similar fastidiousness all things considered. Nobody should question that," he included.

Taking note of that they will make another stride for the concerned NGO's and residents, Kurum said that all work done during the development stage will be on record and the individuals who wish can watch the development takes a shot at the official site of the Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ).

In the interim, TOKİ Chairman Ömer Bulut excused both the consultancy firm regulating the development and the leader of the significant office, branch administrator and master.

The contractual worker firm has likewise been fined for not clinging to the guidelines set for the protection of the lake, TOKİ said in an announcement.

Addressing Hürriyet, Bulut said that the firm fouled up and that it didn't mirror the sensitivities to works in spite of the admonitions.

"Presently we will watch the site with a surveillance camera for 24 hours," he said.

"I will likewise impart these pictures to the residents. Nobody will see truck haggles on the sea shore any longer.

"We won't permit soil developments before wooden structures and every day structures are done. The shade of the structures will be among white and dim and will be near white so it will be coordinated with the lake," he noted.

Lake Salda was announced first and second degree "Common Protected Area" in 1989 and an "Uncommon Environmental Protection Area" in 2019.

Turkey opens airspace to spare Italian baby's life

Turkey opens airspace to spare Italian baby's life

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In the midst of the conclusion of Turkish airspace due to the coronavirus flare-up, it freed it up to an Italian stream to spare the life of a 2-year-old Italian kid.

On March 14, Dr. Massimo Cardillo, the leader of Italy's National Transplant Center, sent an email approaching Turkish experts for help with the feeble little child, as per Turkish human services sources.

The mail said that after an extensive hunt of universal benefactor banks, the perfect giver for the baby anticipating an undifferentiated cell transplant was found in Turkey, included the sources, who asked not to be named because of limitations on addressing the media.

In spite of the fact that at that point Turkey had shut its airspace because of the COVID-19 risk, Turkey's Health Ministry and Foreign Ministry made a unique special case right now spare the little child's life.

The perfect benefactor was found and given by Turkey's Stem Cell Coordination Center.

On March 31, a stream took off from Rome and was permitted to land at Istanbul Airport.

The undeveloped cells were then conveyed to the Italian group by Turkish specialists in a secluded room at the air terminal.

The Italian group took the cells to Rome without occurrence and conveyed them to the medical clinic for transplantation to the little child.

Nicoletta Sacchi, chief of the Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, said they will always remember Turkey's assistance during this troublesome period.

"I stretch out my gratitude to the giver, the primary legend of the occasion. We're appreciative to both Turkey and the contributor," he said.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has slaughtered a huge number of individuals worldwide since rising last December, numerous nations, including Turkey, have shut their airspace to both global and local flights.

Performer records Hagia Sofia acoustics

Performer records Hagia Sofia acoustics

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The acoustics of Istanbul's famous Hagia Sofia was recorded just because all the while with eight cameras and voice recorders.

Turkish performer and artist Emre Yücelen and a volunteer group are behind the chronicle.

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For an acoustics sound test, imam Önder Soy and muezzin Ahmet Toraman worked from a supplication room on the exhibition hall grounds and recounted the Muslim call to petition, or adhan, and different areas from the Quran inside the memorable historical center.

A "muezzin" is the individual who decides to petition.

Named the "Eight Wonder of the World" by students of history, the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia was a Christian church until it was changed over to a mosque when the Ottoman Empire vanquished Istanbul in 1453 preceding it transformed it into an exhibition hall in 1935.

An alum of Istanbul's esteemed ITU-Turkish Music State Conservatory's Sound Department, Yücelen transferred the video to his YouTube channel which has so far been seen in excess of multiple times.

This was not his first endeavor to record acoustics from chronicled structures in Turkey.

In 2006, Yücelen visited 17 mosques in Istanbul and talked with strict authorities for two hours and recorded their bare voice during the adhans.

Massive mosques have wonderful acoustics

In 2007, he discharged a CD, Istanbul Mosques and Muezzins and recollects the feel inside those structures. "Presenting the adhan in the first part of the day with Ali Rıza Şahin Hoca in [Istanbul's historic] Fatih Mosque on a winter evening," he reviewed. "Those leaves outside … the eminent acoustics of that huge vault."

He said Istanbul's tremendous mosques have glorious acoustics and noted they were constructed dependent on presenting the adhan with a stripped voice, however these days it is recounted with a receiver.

Yücelen said he had a "great point of view" and since he additionally gives singing exercises he, "truly needed to tune in to the acoustics of this spot."

The chronicles were made in three distinct areas inside the gallery: under the arch, in the mihrab – a half circle specialty in the dividers of a mosque demonstrating the heading the reliable should confront while supplicating, and in the muezzin mahfili, an uncommon stage in a mosque where muezzin does his obligations.

As per Yücelen a nitty gritty account like the one he did has never been finished. He reviewed teacher Zerhan Karabiber of Istanbul's Yıldız Technical University who did an acoustical test in the exhibition hall yet it was a voice recording.

Everybody hypnotized during recording

Yücelen reviewed how everybody was hypnotized during the account.

Ought to Hagia Sophia stay an exhibition hall or be come back to a mosque, as it worked during the Ottoman time? It is a subject that has been for quite some time bantered in Turkey and Yücelen said his motivation was never to make a contention.

"These are social legacy," he said. "We are discussing engineering, a culture that has been representing 1,500 years, and it is as of now living in Anatolian lands."

"It is an amazing privilege for us," he said.