Başkale

Meanders formed in creeks with the melting of snow in high zones in the Başkale district of the eastern province of Van offer a visual feast with their beauties.

A muhtar (village head) in the eastern province of Van has been suspended from post after authorities figured out that he hid the identities of people who might have contracted the deadly coronavirus.

Turkey has put more villages in the eastern and Central Anatolian provinces under quarantine in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Two neighborhoods and two hamlets in the eastern Van province, near the Iranian border, have been placed under quarantine, Mehmet Emin Bilmez, the local governor, has announced.

Some 694 buildings have been severely damaged after an earthquake hit the eastern province of Van on Feb. 23, according to preliminary information, Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum has said.

An area in the eastern province of Van's Başkale district, which is called "Vanadoccia" by locals due to its resemblance to Cappadocia's fairy chimneys, has been declared as a protected area.

An area in the eastern province of Van's Başkale district, which is called "Vanadoccia" by locals due to its resemblance to Cappadocia's fairy chimneys, has been declared as a protected area.

With a presidential decree dated Feb. 11, Vanadoccia became a "strictly protected sensitive area."

The bodies of six people thought to be unregistered migrants have been found in Turkey's eastern Van province's Başkale district, just near the Iran border, Anadolu Agency reported on May 3.

Van’s Başkale district, home to rock formations that look like the fairy chimneys in the Cappadocia region, needs promotional activities to host tourists since the end of terrorism in the region

Duygu Asena, Turkey's pioneering feminist writer known for her best-seller "The Woman Has No Name," would have cringed had she seen a recent wedding invitation from the eastern province of Van. The formal invitation, with bold golden letters against a black backdrop, contained no female names - not that of the bride, nor the parents.

Three village guards and one civilian were killed on Nov. 9 in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Başkale district of the southeastern province of Van, Doğan News Agency has reported.
PKK militants used long-barreled weapons to rake a minibus carrying village guards returning from the Yavuzlar neighborhood near the Iranian border.