THE G.A.P. REGION

The region covering Batman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Mardin, Siirt,Sanliurfa, Sirnak and Kilis provinces in the Southeast Anatolia Region is defined as the "GAP Region". Surrounded by Syria in the south and by Iraq in the southeast this area has a total area of 75,358 square kilometres which constitute 9.7 percent of Turkey's total area. 20 percent of 8.5 million hectares of land suitable for irrigation lies in the GAP Region encompassing vast plains in Lower Euphrates and Tigris basins.

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