Adiyaman

ADİYAMAN, 60km northeast of Gaziantep, is the least-used base for the trip to Nemrut Dağı, but it’s a prosperous place with a few things worth exploring. The copper bazaar, south of the bus station at the far end of town, and, behind it, a kervansaray, used for tethering animals. Between the main traffic lights and the bus station, the sleepy museum houses artefacts from local tumuli, which were excavated prior to submersion under the Atatürk Dam waters. The small, late nineteenth-century Syrian Orthodox Church of St Peter and St Paul in the old quarter, is now home to one of the four metropolitan bishops of this ancient church in Turkey, and there are services Sundays from 9.30am–noon.