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During the Late Cretaceous in the Eastern Mediterranean, the northern branch of the southern Neotethys was closed by multiple northward subductions. Of these, the most northerly located subduction created the Baskil continental arc at around 82–84 Ma. The more southerly and intra‐oceanic subduction, on the other hand, produced an arc‐basin system, the Yüksekova Complex, as early as the late Cenomanian–early...