The clock tower standing opposite the provincial government building in Siirt is a modern one, built in 1974-75, but the clock in it is older: the earlier tower, put up east of the great mosque in 1905 by Alaaddin Paşa, was demolished, and its clock was placed in this one.
The tower is of cut stone, in four sections divided from one another by mouldings above a stone base, with a clock face set on each side and a dome on a smaller prism above. It is on Kurtalan Yolu Caddesi in the Bahçelievler quarter.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Siirt as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.8 °C in January to 30.7 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (112 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1939-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
