Belen, Turkey Tourism

Belen (pop. 15,000; alt. 500m/1,641ft), 14km/9mi southeast of Iskenderun and situated some way up the Topbogazi pass (750m/2461ft), is a summer resort popular with people from Iskenderun. Evilya Çelebi's record (1640) shows that even in the 17th century Arabs and Turks, some of them citizens of Aleppo, used to spend the summer months here