Hidirlik Tower

This guide to Hidirlik Tower in Antalya opens with the question that has never been settled: whether this second-century Roman structure on the sea cliff was built as a tomb, a lighthouse, a watchtower, or something else entirely, and why the setting fits more than one answer equally well. It follows the tower through Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman hands, its later name from Islamic tradition, and a 1919 Italian occupation that ended when Turkish irregulars rose against it.