Mount Ararat and Ishak Pasha Palace

The Ishak Pasha palace is an Ottoman-period palace whose construction was started in 1685 by Colak Abdi Pasha of the Cildirogullari, the bey of Beyazit province. Construction was continued by his son İshak Pasha and completed by his grandson Mehmet Pasha. According to the inscription on its door, the Harem Section of the palace was completed by his grandson Ishak (Isaac) Pasha in 1784. P.A. Jaubert who came as secret agent of Napoleon, arrested and jailed into the palace dungeon in 1805. The Ishak Pasha Palace is one of the few examples of surviving historical Turkish palaces.