Rivers & Lakes
Principal Rivers
Turkey is a country rich in water supplies and water basins. Turkey's longest rivers, the Kızılırmak, Sakarya, and Yeşilırmak, flow northward from the interior of the country into the Black Sea. The Tigris (Dicle) and the Euphrates (Firat) rise from the eastern mountains and run southward across the Arabian Platform into Syria and Iraq. The major rivers flowing from the Anatolian Plateau westward into the Aegean Sea are the Gediz and the Büyük Menderes. The Seyhan River flows south from the Eastern Highlands into the Mediterranean Sea. Nonetheless, The Meric, known in in Bulgaria as the Maritsa and in Greece as the Evros, is the river that forms the border between Greece and Turkeys European part before flowing into the northern Aegean.
Turkey is a country rich in water supplies and water basins. Turkey's longest rivers, the Kızılırmak, Sakarya, and Yeşilırmak, flow northward from the interior of the country into the Black Sea. The Tigris (Dicle) and the Euphrates (Firat) rise from the eastern mountains and run southward across the Arabian Platform into Syria and Iraq. The major rivers flowing from the Anatolian Plateau westward into the Aegean Sea are the Gediz and the Büyük Menderes. The Seyhan River flows south from the Eastern Highlands into the Mediterranean Sea. Nonetheless, The Meric, known in in Bulgaria as the Maritsa and in Greece as the Evros, is the river that forms the border between Greece and Turkeys European part before flowing into the northern Aegean.
