Harput

Rising magnificently over a rocky promontory, the remote and inaccessible Harput Castle will send a shudder down your spine.

Turkish Press 2009

The missionary school that opened in 1852 and the American College that started up not long afterwards show that Harput was a major center of culture and education in that period.

Turkish Press 2009

The rocky cliff that imparts to the castle its splendor, and to Harput its strategic importance, has enabled another sort of beauty to flourish on its eastern face.

Turkish Press 2009

Harput today is a summer resort on a lake and a popular place not only with Elazýð residents but also with nature lovers and people of religious faith who come here from all over Eastern and even Central Anatolia.

Turkish Press 2009

Receiving its fair share of the misty-eyed western paeans that define the East, Harput is known to the Americans as 'the natural garden of Asia'.

Turkish Press 2009

Harput, where churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary rise next to tombs of the ancestors of Mehmed the Conqueror on the same hill, is a popular summer resort today at the summit of Eastern Anatolia's most exciting panorama.

Turkish Press 2009

* Why did the Armenian historian Sarafyan, who accepted the invitation of the then chief of Turkish History Foundation, Halacoglu, for cooperation to investigate Harput events, abandon the project, after talking the Armenian diaspora?

unknown title 2009

* Why did the Armenian historian Sarafyan, who accepted the invitation of the then chief of Turkish History Foundation, Halacoglu, for cooperation to investigate Harput events, abandon the project, after talking the Armenian diaspora?

unknown title 2009

It was taken by a German businessman out of his hotel window in the Anatolian town of Harput.

Mick Hartley 2009

Knowing that place names have a tendency to change over time, I conclude that Harput is none other than the old Elazýð, a center of settlement that held sway over a region stretching to Erzurum in the north as far as Aleppo in the south.

Turkish Press 2009