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EGMA (aka. Peynirlikönü) is the deepest cave of Turkey[LINK:
http://www.balkan-speleo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11]
[1]. It is in the southern region of Anatolia, on Ta?eli Plateau and is
-1429 meters deep. EGMA stands for Evren Günay - Mehmet Ali Özel Sinkhole.
It was being explored by [LINK: http://www.bumak.boun.edu.tr/] BÜMAK
(Bo?aziçi University Speleological Society) since 1993 when a flash flood
caused Mehmet Ali Özel to lose his life inside the cave in 2001. In 2004,
with the help of members of the [LINK: http://bfs.hit.bg/] Bulgarian
Speleological Federation, BÜMAK team recovered Mehmet Ali's body and also
reached the deepest point of the cave.
External links
· [LINK:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.tr/ngm/konu.asp?Yil=04&Ay=10&Konu=6] The
article and photos about the 2004 expedition in National Geographic Türkiye
