Antep kale

After the previous tit-bits (and a computer change with has kept me from blogging for a few days) I can now start to show our recent trip more chronologically. This is the fortress of Gaziantep, probably used for the last time during the independence fighting against the French around 1920, giving the city the honorific "gazi" after being plain Antep (Ottoman Aintab). The fortress was closed but looked a lot like the Aleppo one from the outside, if somewhat smaller. The similarity to Aleppo is probably no coincidence, as the city belonged to the Aleppo province before a Turkish-Syrian border was drawn between the two.