Lake Akşehir () is a

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Afyonkarahisar Afyonkarahisar (, 'poppy, opium', ''kara'' 'black', ''hisar'' 'fortress') is a major city in western Turkey. It is the administrative centre of Afyonkarahisar Province and Afyonkarahisar District. Its population is 251,799 (2021). Afyon is in the ...

and

Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

provinces, in the southwestern part of

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. It carries the same name as the town of

Akşehir Akşehir is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 93,965 (2022). It was known historically as Philomelium. The town is situated at the edge of a fertile plain, on the north ...

south of the lake."A Preliminary Study on the Ostracoda (Crustacea) Fauna of Lake Akşehir"
, ''Turkish J. Zoology'' 24 (2000), pp. 9-16 The lake is fed by the Eber Channel, five larger streams from the

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, and many smaller streams. The lake's salinity increases towards the middle and northern parts due to underground spring waters. The lake is used for irrigation.

Important Bird Area

The lake, which is in unprotected status, was declared by

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as an

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in 1989 for its

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species, which are threatened globally as well as on site by hunting, reed cutting in the breeding season and pollution. This paper was "adapted from a talk given at the XVII ICBP European Continental Section Conference held in Adana, Turkey from May 15 to May 20, 1989.

References

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