Kılıçkaya Dam is 25 km north of town of Suşehri 158 km northeast of Sivas city in center east of Turkey and located on the Kelkit, a tributary of the Yeşilırmak River which flows down along a large fault in the north east Anatolia than runs into the Black Sea.Geology in the river basin, where many landslides can be observed, is of sedimentary formation.
