SİNAN (ZİLEK) BRIDGE

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Sinan (Zilek) Bridge is located 2.4km southwest of Soğuksu (Zorava) village of Batman city center.

It is known that the bridge was built by the State Railways between 1939-1944. Zilek Bridge is used as a railway bridge between Batman province and Diyarbakır provinces on Batman Stream. The bridge was built as an east-west oriented, ten-eyed, round arch. In order to protect the piers of the bridge in the current, there are octagonal flood scars made independently of the bridge pier. The bridge has undergone various repairs in the following periods.