What Turkish city between the Karakum Desert and the Kopec Dag mountain range also boasts a famous Turkish basketball player?
Ashgabat Ashgabat (Turkmen: Aşgabat , ; Russian: Ашхаба́д , "Ashkhabad"; ] ) — was named as Poltoratsk (Russian: Полтора́цк ; ] ) between 1919 and 1927, is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, situated between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range.
Karakoçan Karakoçan (Ottoman Turkish: تپه‎ "Hill", Kurdish: Dep‎ , Armenian: "Oxi" ) is a town and district of Elazığ Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The mayor is Burhan Kocaman (Democratic Regions Party). The population is 13,279.