Lake Keşiş is dying. This artificial Urartian reservoir, nestled at 2,550 meters above sea level in the district of Gürpınar, near Van, is being reduced year by year as a result of global warming. Professor Faruk Alaeddinoğlu, of the Faculty of Geography of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, alert: where the lake extended up to 7 km2, there are sometimes only swampy areas and residual puddles. What disappears with water is one of the oldest hydraulic s…
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Lake Keşiş is dying. This artificial Urartian reservoir, nestled at 2,550 meters above sea level in the district of Gürpınar, near Van, is being reduced year by year as a result of global warming. Professor Faruk Alaeddinoğlu, of the Faculty of Geography of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, alert: where the lake extended up to 7 km2, there are sometimes only swampy areas and residual puddles. What disappears with water is one of the oldest hydraulic s…