Lake Hazar

{{Short description|Rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, Turkey}}

{{Expand Turkish|topic=geo|Hazar Gölü|date=July 2017}}

{{Infobox lake

| name = Lake Hazar

| pushpin_map = Turkey

| image = Hazar Gölü ve çam ağaçları.jpg

| caption = Lake Hazar and pine trees

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| location = Taurus Mountains

| coords = {{coord|38|29|N|39|25|E|region:TR_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}}

| lake_type = Rift lake

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| outflow = Tigris

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| basin_countries = Turkey

| length = {{convert|22|km|abbr=on}}

| width = {{convert|6|km|abbr=on}}

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Lake Hazar ({{langx|tr|Hazar Gölü}}; {{langx|ku|Gola Hezarê}}; {{langx|hy|Ծովք լիճ|Covk‘ lič}}) is a rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, 22 km southeast of Elazığ, notable as the source of the Tigris. Formerly known as Lake Geoljuk,{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} the lake was used as an execution site during the Armenian genocide.{{cite book |last1=Kaiser |first1=Hilmar |title=The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-923211-6 |editor1-last=Bloxham |editor1-first=Donald |language=en |chapter=Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire |editor2-last=Moses |editor2-first=A. Dirk}}{{Cite web |last=Kinzer |first=Stephen |date=10 May 2000 |title=Turkish Region Recalls Massacre of Armenians |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/10/world/turkish-region-recalls-massacre-of-armenians.html |access-date=13 September 2021 |website=The New York Times |language=en}}