I was looking at a map of a different country, and I wondered to myself if I had ever featured a lighthouse in Turkey in the Lighthouse of the Week feature. To my astonishment, even after all these years, I had not. So I'm going to start with a couple, this week and next week, and then revisit occasionally.
Turkey should have a good number of lighthouses; it has coastlines on three different major seas -- the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean -- as well as a smaller one, the Sea of Marmara. I haven't checked to see if it actually has lighthouses on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, but I suspect it does.
This is a Black Sea lighthouse, west of Istanbul, and located in Zonguldak. I zoomed the map fairly far out so you can see where it is in relation to Istanbul.
Here we have what the Lighthouse Directory provides:
"1908. Active; focal plane 53 m (174 ft); white flash every 5 s. 9 m (30 ft) round masonry tower with lantern and gallery, attached to the seaward side of a 1-story keeper's house. The Fener Café restaurant.has been built around the seaward side of the light tower. Lighthouse painted white. ... The original lighthouse was a wood tower. ... Located on a high promontory at the northeast entrance to Zonguldak harbor. Site open, restaurant open daily, tower closed."
I'm providing three pictures.
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