Dülükbaba is one of the few protected areas on this list that city buses actually reach: the M09, M10, M17-1, S12 and S04 lines serve it. It lies eight kilometres north of Gaziantep at Dülük in the Şehitkamil district, on the Gaziantep-Adana state road.
The park covers 306 hectares, was declared on 11 July 2011 and takes its name from the village nearby. Its capacity is among the largest here: 12,500 visitors, 3,500 vehicles and 50 tents.
The trees are Turkish red pine, black pine and Mediterranean cypress, and the ground flora surveyed here is rich in aromatic herbs: Syrian thyme, zahter (Thymbra spicata), felty germander, white horehound, Ziziphora and Cyclotrichium, with spring bulbs such as crocus, Persian iris, yellow star-of-Bethlehem and grape hyacinth. The animals are those of a city's edge: sparrows and crows, partridge, hare, fox, jackal, weasel and mice, and now and then a buzzard or a falcon.
People come mostly for day picnics and walks between spring and autumn, and the directorate counts the park among the places Gaziantep prefers for recreation. Şehitkamil Municipality operates it; among the facilities the directorate lists are a pond, a stream, a visitor centre, a tented camping area, a country restaurant, play areas and a nature education centre, where children, young people and adults are hosted on organised programmes.
- Designated
- 11.07.2011
Entry fee
- Southeastern Anatolia group 1 · category 1 · Per person
- 50 ₺
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:00 - 22:00
When to go
- Climate
- Across Gaziantep as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.2 °C in January to 28.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (103 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
