Kisecik Radar Station () is a military installation located at Kisecik village of

Antakya Antakya (), Turkish form of Antioch, is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is . Prior to the devastating 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, 2023 earthquakes, its population was recorded ...

district in

Hatay Province Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...

, southern Turkey. Construction of the facility for use by

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started in 1998. It went into service in the summer of 2004. It is situated on a -high hilltop of the

Nur Mountains The Nur Mountains (, "Mountains of Holy Light"), formerly known as Alma-Dağ, the ancient Mount Amanus (), medieval Black Mountain, or Jabal al-Lukkam in Arabic, is a mountain range in the Hatay Province of south-central Turkey. It begins sou ...

close to the

Syria–Turkey border The border between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey (; ) is long, and runs from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the tripoint with Iraq in the east. It runs across Upper Mesopotamia for some , crossing the Euphrates and ...

. The radar station can cover an area including

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countries,

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and

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. The radar base has installations in underground and aboveground, and is protected by fences. The next radar base in Hatay Province is the Atik Plateau Radar Station at

Belen, Hatay Belen is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 184 km2, and its population is 34,449 (2022). Etymology When describing his visit to the region in the 17th century, Evliya Çelebi mentioned that ''belen'' means ''s ...

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