ISTANBUL (AA) – Istanbul Governor Davut Gül visited the Bahçelievler Municipality Sacrifice Sales and Slaughtering Area and examined the preparations on site. According to the statement made by Bahçelievler Municipality, within the scope of the visit, Governor Gül received information from the authorities about the measures taken in the sacrifice area, regulations at sales and slaughter points, hygiene, security and services offered to citizens.
Gül chatted for a while with the citizens and animal owners who were in the area to buy sacrificial animals. Listening to the demands of the citizens, Gül expressed his wishes for Eid al-Adha to be spent in peace and health. This year, there are 117 tents in the municipal sacrifice sales and slaughtering area established in Çobançeşme, and there are approximately 3 thousand cattle and 4 thousand sheep for sacrifice. Municipal teams will work in the field with cleaning, police, veterinary, security and guidance services during Eid al-Adha.
11The water discharged from a height of 173 meters at the Karakaya Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant (HEPP) in Çüngüş district of Diyarbakır turned into a visual feast. The amount of water in the basin of Karakaya Dam and HEPP, Turkey’s third largest dam and second largest hydroelectric power plant, reached 9.5 billion cubic meters with heavy rainfall. In the Karakaya Dam and HEPP, which has an installed capacity of 1800 megawatts with a total of 6 units, 2 discharge gates of the dam were opened in the first place on May 11, after 7 years, against the risk of possible floods due to the water level approaching the maximum level.
The discharge of pressurized water from the dam set, whose body height is 173 meters, turned into a visual feast. Rainbows occasionally form in the region due to sunlight.
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