“…Anatolia hosts numerous sedimentary basins that provide crucial records of orogenic evolution, most of which contain thick Cenozoic sequences that have been well studied and correlated from a stratigraphic perspective (e.g., Görür et al, 1984Görür et al, , 1998Hempton, 1985;Yılmaz, 1993;Gürer and Aldanmaz, 2002;Boulton, 2009;Kaymakci et al, 2009;Rice et al, 2009;Booth et al, 2013). However, there is still significant uncertainty in the tectonic settings of many of these basins (Görür et al, 1998;Gürer and Aldanmaz, 2002;Yılmaz and Yılmaz, 2019). Moreover, the timing and mechanism(s) responsible for widespread deformation, particularly in Central and Eastern Anatolia, are debated and not well understood (e.g., Dirik et al, 1999;Clark and Robertson, 2002;Yılmaz andYılmaz, 2006, 2019;Kaymakci et al, 2010;Okay et al, 2010;Ballato et al, 2018;Darin et al, 2018).…”