I had the chance to stay here in 2014 just for one night. I've been shown a water spring in a neighboring village, where we've got to using the old road D400, and the new bridge. I walked a bit on my own in the outskirts of Ipek and Şanlı streets. I haven't got much to tell — this is more of an archive of pre-earthquake photos of the town which was Nurdağı before the 2023 quake.
Living near mountains means having such views, among other things. This view of Nurdağı was available from nearby the saddle on the road D400. The town was around 440 metres lower. The mountain pass is at 970, and the town is аt 529 metres over the sea level.
The central street was called the Kahramanmaraş boulevard. It was used for car sales and rental. Car dealer offices and a gazillion of white cars — mostly minibuses — were taking near two kilometers of the street length.
One of schools.
Evening on Ipek street.
Part of the big Bahçe wind power station was visible on the mountain ridge.
The lights of the O52 highway at night.
A turkish rooster yelled it was morning already.
Number of some house.
Turkish geese walking on double «T» tiles, passing by plastic waste.
Mountains and wind turbines — such was a morning view from somewhere around Şanlı street.
Sun energy was also at use — drying bell pepper.
These nice houses, three or four of them, were standing separately from others. I wish they were all mine...
One of viaducts of this world was named after Atatürk, of course, but was also having the second name «Nurdağı viaduct» for convenience. It could be visible from the town:
A part of the viaduct from the D400 road, which was slightly above:
As you may have noticed, there was a big problem of plastic bag waste in and near Nurdağı.
Added in 2024: Nurdağı has been completely destroyed by an earthquake in 2023. The owners of the house where I stayed lived because they have moved out of Nurdağı long before the quake. The satellite images of Nurdağı in 2024 show many piles of concrete debris, tidily formed by bulldozers in the grid of streets. I guess the plastic bags are somewhere between the concrete now. It is planned to rebuild Nurdağı completely.
The viaduct lived through the quake relatively unharmed, and continued to function after some works.