Lake Hazar

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Lake Hazar
Lake Hazar and pine trees
Lake Hazar
Location	Taurus Mountains
Coordinates	38°29′N 39°25′E / 38.483°N 39.417°E / 38.483; 39.417
Lake type	Rift Lake
Primary outflows	Tigris
Basin countries	Turkey
Max. length	22 km (14 mi)
Max. width	6 km (3.7 mi)

Lake Hazar (Turkish: Hazar Gölü; Armenian: Ծովք լիճ, romanized: Covk‘ lič) is a rift lake in the Taurus Mountains, 22 km southeast of Elazığ, notable as the source of the Tigris. It was formerly known as Lake Geoljuk.

During the Armenian genocide the lake was used as an execution site.^[1][2]