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Mount Cilo
Mount Cilo. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mount Cilo (Turkish: Cilo Dağı; Kurdish: Çiyayê Cîlo; Armenian: Ջողա լեռ) is the second highest mountain in Turkey after Greater Mount Ararat (Büyük Ağrı Dağı; 5,137 m (16,854 ft)). Its highest summit Reşko, also known as Gelyaşin or Uludoruk, is 4,135 m (13,566 ft) high and lies in the Hakkâri Dağları/Mountains, located in the East Taurus (Tr.: "Doğu Toroslar"), in the district of Yüksekova of the Hakkâri Province in southeasternmost part of Turkey in East Anatolia region.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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