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The Sunken Minaret of Bafra is the minaret of a mosque that was submerged beneath the waters of the Derbent Dam constructed on the Kızılırmak on in the Boğazkaya Neighborhood of Bafra district, Samsun. Between the late 1980s and 1990, as a result of construction work carried out by the State Water Ministry, approximately 200 building homes in Boğazkaya were submerged, yet the mosque’s minaret survived without collapsing and remains visible to this day. Region has become a tourist recording cente