(sorry a bit off-topic, but just asking if anyone has had similar experiences in the place mentioned below?)
Marked with red is where I had my pulse-raising encounter with the big dogs... this was back in 2007, but if my memory serves me right, it was the Tendurec Gecidi pass, where there was a huge old lava flow right next to the road on the Lake Van side. And dogs were only a problem up in the pass area itself, just there where the road goes very very close to the border of Iran. There were some dwellings that looked like shepherd huts, maybe they were actually their dogs:
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