Author 'D.marsim' (Id 235891 ) : The fortress of Hoş ap : unique in its kind in Turkey, it was built in 1643 by a war chief of the kurdish Sari Süleyman, leader of the people of mahmoudi. Built on a steep hill, about sixty kilometers from Van on the road to Baş kale in the township of Hoș ap and near the river of the same name, which flows at its feet.