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Municipality in Ağrı, Turkey
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Doğubayazıt (Kurdish: Bazîd) is a town in Eastern Anatolia, in the far east of Turkey near the border with Iran. It's therefore a transit hub, with a population in 2022 of 80,000. Reasons to linger are its 17th-century Ishak Pasha Palace, and snow-capped Mount Ararat, in legend the landing place of Noah's Ark.
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Looming high over the town, this fortified complex was begun in 1685 but is named for the fellow who completed it in 1784: pashas were hereditary governors. It was damaged by the earthquake when Ararat erupted in 1840 but eventually restored, and used as a fort until 1937. The style is a unique blend of Turkish, Persian, and Armenian.
Ciğer is chopped liver, but they also serve the usual kebabs. Good portions and reasonable prices.
Management got a grip in 2025, so it's still a run-down basic hotel but is now kept clean and has a/c.
Basic but central.
Clean and comfy with views of the mountain.
Smart, clean and central. They'll do laundry and store stuff.
Smallish but clean rooms.
Very mixed reviews for this place on the main highway.
Clean, comfy, welcoming and family-friendly.
By bus
Kamil Koç, now part of Flixbus, runs once a day from Istanbul, taking 23 hours via Erzincan, Erzurum and Ağrı.
By road
Highway D100 / E80 runs the entire width of Turkey from Edirne on the border with Bulgaria all the way east through Istanbul to Erzincan, Erzurum, Ağrı and Doğubayazıt.
The downtown strip is the pedestrianised İnegöl Cd. It used to be named for İsmail Beşikçi (b 1939) but he advocates Kurdish civil rights and is therefore a non-person.
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