These houses of cut stone stand on the slope below the castle at Çukurca, built several storeys high and leaning against the castle itself.
The district governorate describes them as fine surviving examples of the historic houses of Çukurca. They are in the Cumhuriyet quarter.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Hakkari as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -4.4 °C in January to 24.8 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (126 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1961-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
