The Baku Turkish Martyrs' Memorial (Azerbaijani: Bakı Türk Şəhidliyi, Turkish: Bakü Türk Şehitleri Anıtı) is a memorial dedicated to the Ottoman soldiers killed during the World War I in Azerbaijan.
[1][2] The monument was designed by Turkish architects Hüseyin Bütüner and Hilmi Güner in the form of a two-story pyramidal frustum with square bases, of which truncated corners are carved out so that it appears as a sort of octagonal frustum.
It is covered by red granite having star and crescent figures made of pure white marble on each of the four main faces that resembles the Turkish national flag.
A mosque, built by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs and opened on June 28, 1996, is situated next to the monument.
In April 2009, the nearby Mosque of the Martyrs was closed by Azerbaijani authorities,[3] and, as of December 2012[update], it was still out of use even though Mehmet Görmez, the president of the Turkish Religious Affairs, was permitted to pray in the mosque during his visit to Baku.