Taurus Mountains
Mountain system in TurkeyWikipedia
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Oct 11, 2026
The politics of water: Iraq and Turkey
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0:59speaker_1NARRATOR
The Documentary, home of the best documentaries from the BBC World Service.
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1:05Krassi Ivanova-TwiggHOST
[instrumental music] In the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey, two rivers begin their journey through Iraq and Syria.
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1:19Krassi Ivanova-TwiggHOST
For centuries, the Tigris and Euphrates carried goods, armies, and ideas, shaping some of history's great empires, but today the rivers are running dry.
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1:31speaker_1NARRATOR
The Ma'dan who have been herding water buffalo for thousands of years must now buy water to ensure the survival of their animals.
By Desert Ways to Baghdad-Louisa Jebb Wilkins
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3:41Paul WelfordNARRATOR
What we should eat and what we should gaze upon was still wrapped in the mystery of the great unknown.
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3:48Paul WelfordNARRATOR
X took a pencil and marked a straight line from Constantinople across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Tarsus.
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3:55Paul WelfordNARRATOR
That looks a good point to make for, she said.
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3:58Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Alexander led an army over the Taurus.
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60:20Paul WelfordNARRATOR
They told us you would look after us here, she said.
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60:24Paul WelfordNARRATOR
As my eyes, he answered very quietly and simply, and thus began one of those friendships on which neither time nor distance can leave its mark.
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60:33Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Two days later, X asked him whether he would accompany us on the next stage of our journey across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Masina.
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60:43Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Will you come with us and guard us well? she said.
By Desert Ways to Baghdad-Louisa Jebb Wilkins
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3:41Paul WelfordNARRATOR
What we should eat and what we should gaze upon was still wrapped in the mystery of the great unknown.
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3:47Paul WelfordNARRATOR
X took a pencil and marked a straight line from Constantinople across the Anatolian Plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Tarsus.
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3:54Paul WelfordNARRATOR
"That looks a good point to make for," she said.
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3:57Paul WelfordNARRATOR
"Alexander led an army over the Taurus." Then, having stopped within measurable distance of the sea, she drew her pencil eastwards across the Euphrates to a point on the Tigris high up in the Kurdistan Mountains.
56 MINS LATER
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59:48Paul WelfordNARRATOR
They told us you would look after us here, she said.
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59:52Paul WelfordNARRATOR
As my eyes, he answered very quietly and simply, and thus began one of those friendships on which neither time nor distance can leave its mark.
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60:01Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Two days later, X asked him whether he would accompany us on the next stage of our journey across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Mersina.
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60:11Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Will you come with us and guard us well? she said.
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Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia-A. G. Seklemian
Oct 10 · 1 Mention
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1:35speaker_2UNKNOWN
But since the audience is made up of people who are comparatively unacquainted with my native land and its traditions, naturally they would like to know who the storyteller is, where he got his narratives, and by whom and how his tales were first told.
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1:55speaker_2UNKNOWN
About twenty years ago, I was a boy living in a village on the heights of the Taurus Mountains in Cilicia, or Lesser Armenia, not far from the Mediterranean Sea.
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2:08speaker_2UNKNOWN
Like boys and girls all over the world, I was very fond of stories.
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2:13speaker_2UNKNOWN
But there were no storybooks or other reading matter with which I and other children of my age could gratify our eager desire for stories.
Escape - Three Good Witnesses (national broadcast)
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27:13speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
Ward, has not one bit of evidence to support it.
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27:16speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
By your own statement, the evidence is buried in the snow on the slopes of the Taurus Mountains.
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27:20Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
Nuts.
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27:20Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
I tell you, I helped chuck it out.
Escape - Three Good Witnesses (national broadcast, different production)
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29:35speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Ward, is not one bit of evidence is supported.
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29:37speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
By your own statements, the evidence of the, is buried in the snow on the slopes of the Taurus Mountains.
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29:41Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
Nuts.
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29:42Jack WebbVOICE_ACTOR
I tell you, I helped chuck it out.
By Desert Ways to Baghdad-Louisa Jebb Wilkins
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3:55Paul WelfordNARRATOR
What we should eat and what we should gaze upon was still wrapped in the mystery of the great unknown.
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4:02Paul WelfordNARRATOR
X took a pencil and marked a straight line from Constantinople across the Anatolian Plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Tarsus.
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4:08Paul WelfordNARRATOR
"That looks a good point to make for," she said.
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4:11Paul WelfordNARRATOR
"Alexander led an army over the Taurus." Then, having stopped within measurable distance of the sea, she drew her pencil eastwards across the Euphrates to a point on the Tigris high up in the Kurdistan mountains.
55 MINS LATER
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59:32Paul WelfordNARRATOR
They told us you would look after us here, she said.
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59:36Paul WelfordNARRATOR
As my eyes, he answered very quietly and simply, and thus began one of those friendships on which neither time nor distance can leave its mark.
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59:45Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Two days later, X asked him whether he would accompany us on the next stage of our journey across the Anatolian plateau and the Taurus Mountains to Mersina.
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59:55Paul WelfordNARRATOR
Will you come with us and guard us well? she said.
TAURUS MOUNTAIN RACE PREVIEW; Ultrascape Podcast S2 Ep12
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1:46Beccy WatersHOST
[laughs] Well, we'll come onto that.
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1:48Beccy WatersHOST
Josh is obviously lining up at the Taurus Mountain race next week, and we'll preview that later in the episode.
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1:52Beccy WatersHOST
But before that, we'll talk about the Transpyrenees race, uh, that's finished, and the Arizona Trail race, uh, which is about halfway through at the moment, as well as a few other bits of news since the last episode.
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2:05Josh IbbettHOST
Before we get to that, though, uh, we need to thank the sponsors, as always.
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20:03Josh IbbettHOST
Um, so yeah, I guess the next big race-
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20:07Beccy WatersHOST
That's the Transpyrenees wrapped up really.
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20:09Beccy WatersHOST
Um, and then the next race is the Taurus Mountain Race.
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20:13Beccy WatersHOST
It's the inaugural race, uh, from Nelson Trees and his team at the mountain races in Turkey.
Escaping Club-A. J. Evans
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477:02Tom WeissNARRATOR
He was all for conciliation and advocated judicious bribery to increase our comforts, while I was as irritable and unreasonable as only a tired, ill, and disappointed man can be.
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477:14Tom WeissNARRATOR
In the early days of the war, there was only one bad road which zigzagged through the Taurus Mountains.
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477:21Tom WeissNARRATOR
Later, the Germans organized an efficient motor lorry service with German drivers and mechanics, for machinery of any sort is quite beyond Turkish intelligence.
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477:30Tom WeissNARRATOR
When we passed through, the narrow-gauge railway had been working for some time, and they were making good progress with the broad-gauge line, which would improve enormously the Turkish efficiency on the Mesopotamia and Palestine fronts.
Lycian Coast Arrival and Kas Diving
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0:08Emre YilmazHOST
The drive from Fethi had taken 3 hours and 35 minutes by public transport, but today I had the wheel.
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0:15Emre YilmazHOST
The coastal road is a ribbon of gray concrete pinned between the steep limestone cliffs of the Taurus Mountains and the deep blue Mediterranean.
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0:23Emre YilmazHOST
It is not a highway for rushing.
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0:25Emre YilmazHOST
It is a place to watch the light change on the water.
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