“…The vanishing of the northern branch of the Neo-Tethyan ocean during the Cretaceous and subsequent collision of the Pontides and Anatolide-Tauride microcontinents with the CACC in the Paleocene gave rise to a long and narrow ophiolitic mélange belt called the IAESZ at the northern part of the Anatolian Plate (Şengör and Yılmaz, 1981;Okay and Tüysüz, 1999) (Figure 1a). Around both sides and along this suture zone, postcollisional Eocene magmatism (particularly Middle Eocene) developed through the western to eastern part of the Anatolian Plate and is represented by granitoids (Harris et al, 1994;Genç and Yılmaz, 1997;Topuz et al, 2005;Arslan and Aslan, 2006;Okay and Satır, 2006;Karslı et al, 2007Karslı et al, , 2011Boztuğ, 2008;Karacık et al, 2008;Ustaömer et al, 2009;Altunkaynak et al, 2012;Gülmez et al, 2013;Öztürk, 2015, Özdamar et al 2017), gabbroic intrusions (Boztuğ et al, 1998;Temizel et al, 2014;Eyuboglu et al, 2016), and calcalkaline, mildly alkaline, and potassic/shoshonitic volcanic products (Figure 1b;Peccerillo and Taylor, 1976;Keskin et al, 2008 and references therein; Karslı et al, 2011, Kaygusuz et al, 2011Arslan et al, 2013 and references therein; Aydınçakır and Şen, 2013;Dokuz et al, 2013;Gülmez et al, 2013;Aslan et al, 2014;Aydınçakır, 2014, Sipahi et al, 2014Yücel et al, 2014;Kasapoğlu et al, 2016;Temizel et al, 2016).…”