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Types of evidenceInstitutional sourcePeer-reviewedPressOn-site documentNGO publicationLocal accountProject concept fileSources disagree
  1. On-site document The information plaque on the square, Kaunos Aslanı / Lion from Caunos, Köyceğiz. Photograph: Kjf webmaster, 23 Oct 2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. source →
  2. Institutional source Köyceğiz District Governorate, “Kaunos Antik Kenti” (accessed 23 Aug 2026). source →
  3. Peer-reviewed Ufuk Çörtük, “Kaunos Antik Kenti Araştırma Tarihçesi”, bitig Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 2/4 (2022), 298–321. Baki Öğün's words are quoted in this article (Öğün 1998: 175 ff.). source →
  4. Peer-reviewed Anadolu'da Dairesel Planlı Tapınaklar (Circular-plan temples in Anatolia), unpublished MA thesis, Akdeniz University — the measurements of the Kaunos monopteros and its reading as a funerary monument. source →
  5. Press Anadolu Agency, “Traces of the Ottoman period found in the excavations at Kaunos”, 18 Aug 2023. source →
  6. Press CNN Türk, “An 1,800-year-old hospital and a 2,300-year-old fountain found at Kaunos”, 15 Sep 2025. source →
  7. Press Türkiye Turizm, “Excavations at Kaunos have run without a break for 60 years”, 6 May 2026. source →
  8. Institutional source UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Ancient City of Kaunos — Tentative List, submitted 15 Apr 2014. source →
  9. Press Aydınlık, “The Köyceğiz film festival has not been held for 7 years”, 17 Dec 2025. source →
  10. Institutional source Ministry of Culture and Tourism, MüzeKart — Fethiye Museum: “Closed to visitors” (accessed 23 Aug 2026). The Kaunos site is administered by the same museum directorate. source → reason for the closure →
  11. Institutional source Köyceğiz District Governorate, “Köyceğiz Gölü” (accessed 26 Aug 2026) — the island's military and prison use, fort ruins attributed to the Genoese, and the Aşık Island legend, which the page itself ties to the widespread Anatolian “island and snake” tale type. source →
  12. Institutional source Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation, Special Environmental Protection Areas — Köyceğiz-Dalyan booklet (PDF; accessed 26 Aug 2026): c. 1,700 specimens; 924 species and infraspecific taxa in 470 genera and 110 families; 81 endemic and 20 rare species classified under IUCN criteria. source →
  13. Peer-reviewed İ. Harman & M. Avcı, “Contributions to the knowledge of Turkish saproxylic beetle fauna of Anatolian sweetgum forests”, Turkish Journal of Entomology 47/4 (2023), 415–431. 1,302 individuals from two sweetgum plots in Muğla; 108 species in 33 families; 15 new records for the fauna of Türkiye. The study does not give a district-level location, hence “sweetgum forests in Muğla” in the text. source →
  14. Institutional source General Directorate of Forestry, Muğla Regional Directorate, “Sweetgum oil production has begun in Köyceğiz”, 23 Jun 2026 — the Kavakarası facility, April-October season, 50 hectares, 1 tonne of oil and 3 tonnes of incense planned for 2026, closed heating system. source →
  15. Institutional source DEKAMER / Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, General Directorate for the Protection of Natural Assets, Köyceğiz-Dalyan SEPA Sea Turtle Research, Monitoring and Conservation Project — 2025 Final Report, Prof. Dr. Yakup Kaska and team. 770 loggerhead nests, 56,067 eggs, 38,644 hatchlings and 67% emergence success on Dalyan-İztuzu Beach; 13 tracks and 3 nests of Trionyx triunguis. source →
  16. Press TurkStat, Cultural Heritage Statistics, 2025 — provincial breakdown as reported in the press (8 Sep 2026): Muğla has 9 museums and 16 archaeological sites (Kaunos is one of the sites), none of the museums in Köyceğiz; 1,202,505 people visited the province's museums and sites in 2025. source →
  17. Institutional source EUFORGEN (European Forest Genetic Resources Programme), Liquidambar orientalis species page, 2024 (accessed 25 Sep 2026): a relict tree endemic to Türkiye and also found on the island of Rhodes; the same page notes a much wider historical range across Anatolia. source →
  18. Peer-reviewed M. B. Arslan & H. T. Şahin, “A forgotten forest product: the Anatolian sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis Miller)”, Bartın Faculty of Forestry Journal 18/1 (2016), 103–117. Table 1: sweetgum area in Muğla 6,312 ha in 1949, 4,316 ha in 1955, 1,337 ha in 1987, 1,416.65 ha in 2016 (Muğla Regional Forest Directorate data). source →
  19. NGO publication O. Ürker, “Sweetgum forests for birds”, Kuş Sesi 3; Doğa Derneği, 24 Nov 2018: about 60% of the remaining sweetgum forest (~770 ha) lies within the Köyceğiz-Dalyan protection area; forests were felled or drained for citrus orchards; about 50 bird species recorded. source →

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