Ishak Pasha Palace - Dogubeyazit, Turkey

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Ishak Pasha Palace in eastern Turkey

Various aerial shots from the Ishak Pasha Palace in Turkey's eastern Agri province on August 03, 2018.

Building on a hill in the mountainside palace is the last large monumental structure of the Ottoman Empire, the Tulip Period.

Ishak Pasha Palace (Turkish: İshak Paşa Sarayı) is a semi-ruined palace and administrative complex located in the Doğubeyazıt district of Ağrı province of eastern Turkey.

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 , 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.

The Ishak Pasha Palace is one of the few examples of surviving historical Turkish palaces.

The palace was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 100 new lira banknote of 2005-2009