İshak Paşa Palace

In ‘The Legend of Ararat’, Yaşar Kemal tells of an old law of the mountain: whoever seeks refuge at your door is never given up… A horse, a pasha’s pride and the mountain’s unbending law tie the whole knot of the novel. So if the pride of pashas had turned to stone, what would it have built? To find out, we need only climb to the crag above Doğubayazıt, to the shoulder of that steep slope. The palace there looks down over the plain, as if counting every comer and goer, every caravan, every traveler, one by one…