Closure of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean in the Turkish sector of the Alpine-Himalayan orogen by ca. 12 Ma was succeeded by deformation of a domain between the Eurasia plate, presently bounded by the North Anatolian fault, and the Arabian indenter. Facets of this deformation comprise the crustal thickening and uplift that produced the Anatolian plateau, the establishment of transform faults, and tectonic escape as Arabia has continued to impinge into the collage of Anatolian terranes accreted by closure of the Neo-Tethys. We have compiled a database of neotectonic paleomagnetic results from Anatolia to analyze this deformation. Large rotations (up to 5°/10,000...