Images released by broadcasters in the country and on social media show part of the collapsed structure and large blocks of the walls fallen in the streets.
The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that the “iron railings around the castle had fallen onto the pedestrian walkway, with extensive damage to several areas of the monument”.
The site began to be built during the time of the Roman Empire and was used as a watchtower around the 2nd to 4th centuries BC. Over the centuries, it was expanded for various defense uses, reaching its current format already in the Byzantine Empire, between 527 AD and 565 AD Currently, there were 12 towers within the walls.
The castle is one of around 2,800 buildings destroyed by the earthquake across the country, according to the latest report released by the government of Ankara. (ANSA).