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Rapidly changing ore deposit types in the Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary in the Southeastern Anatolian orogenic belt in east-central Turkey, from Baskil on the south to Divrigi on the north, broadly reflect shifting tectonic environments in an evolving collisional orogen, a part of the extensive Tethyan orogen. Late Cretaceous (similar to 83-79 Ma) subduction-related arc magmatism in the Baskil arc was followed by extension that exhumed the metamorphic basement, unroofed the obducted ophiolites, and filled basins with Maastrichtian to Paleocene subaerial and submarine sedimentary rocks. Calc-alkaline (Divrigi pluton, similar to 76-73 Ma) and alkaline igneous rocks (Hasangelebi and Keban districts, similar to 76-74 Ma) accompanied post-Baskil arc extension. In the early to middle Eocene, shallow and locally voluminous intrusions of intermediate composition (Copier, Kabatas, Bizmisen-Calti, Dedeyazi-Polat, Karamadazi, and Horoz), localized mainly along major strike-slip faults, formed during closure of the Neotethyan Ocean. These intrusions are dated between similar to 50 and 44 Ma, peaking at 48 Ma.