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International expedition in 2015 year was held from 5 until 13 June. It was organized by Ali Yamac from OBRUK. Seven more Turkish cavers from different clubs took part in the expedition . Among them was also a team of 4 cave divers. The international character of the expedition comes with the participation of Bulgarians (A. Zhalov and K.Stoichkov members of Bulgarian Caving Society and the Caving Club "Helictit" Sofia and L. Makrostergios of Speleological group of Karditsa - Greece.
The joint team continued the work begun in 2013, according to the existing information.
At first there were explored 8 caves in the vicinity of Halfety town. After renting a boat we float to the most interesting rock cut structure in the place - the cave complex Kral Kizi (King's daughter cave). This huge complex consist 4 caves and hundreds of other rock- structures as evidence of long term steady habitation of the place. The main cave have four vertical levels connected each to other with carved feets and stairs ! According to legend, the daughter of a Greek king who lived in the nearby Greek castle fell in love with a shepherd many centuries ago. Although the shepherd went to the king many times to ask for the daughter's hand in marriage, he was constantly rejected by the ruler. In the end, the daughter and the shepherd ran away and took shelter together in the cave. And the tragic end to this twist in the tale is that soldiers working at the command of the king burned the two lovers to death when they were found in the cave. There is another variation of this tale which has the king imprisoning his daughter in the cave so that the shepherd won't be able to find her. The truth is, this region is filled with many tales about what once happened in this cave.
Later the expedition team moved to the north to Kizilin vill. and rent a boat for 5 days so to be able to reach and study the caves located on the cliffs of the canyon. After boating upstream we made base camp in the major cave explored during the expedition located on the left side of the river.
The first target was to survey our “home” which takes about one full working day. This rock cut settlement was situated at 5 levels (flats) linked by flights of stairs. At each level there were different number of rooms, sells and probably chapels. Some carved in the rock channels and cisterns for collecting water also exist. Probably the total length of the complex is about half kilometer.
In the next days the team of surveyors explored 3 relatively big cave complexes. In parallel with cave exploration the cave divers’ teams check the underwater part of the cliffs expecting to found submerged caves after uprising of the river level. Meanwhile some of us explore about 15 artificial cave in the surroundings of Göksu (Bule water)River (influent river of Euphrates) bridge close to Kizilin . The most ingesting discovery in that place was necropolis consisting 4 (or probably more) cave tombs.
During the expedition were explored in total 28 artificial caves and complexes with total length more than 2 km, but tens of the located caves rest unexplored. Having in mind the historical and archaeological written sources all discovered cavities could be dated form the Hellenistic – Roman period.