Only part of one iwan of this palace is still standing. It sits inside the castle at Hasankeyf, on a slope that commands both the ground around it and the town below.
Hasankeyf had its golden age between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, when it served as capital first to the Artuqids and then to the Ayyubids, and the palaces where the sultan lived and governed stood inside the castle. This was one of them; some sources place its building in the Ayyubid period.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Batman as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 30.3 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (76 mm) and lightest in July (2 mm). Long-term means for 1952-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
