Iğdır (Turkish: [ˈɯːdɯɾ] ⓘ; Armenian: Իգդիր, romanized: Igdir or Ցոլակերտ, Tsʿolakert; Azerbaijani: İğdır; Kurdish: Îdir or Reşqelas)[2] is a city in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.

[4] When the Spanish traveler Ruy González de Clavijo passed through this region in the early 15th century, he stayed a night in a castle he called Egida, located at the foot of Mount Ararat.

[8] Under Russian rule, two primary schools, one for boys and the other for girls, and three churches were opened and 100 Armenian families were allowed to move to Igdir.

[4] Following the Russian Revolution of October 1917, the area came under the control of a temporary administrative committee created by the three main ethnic groups in the Caucasus.

However, in September 1920 the government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey led by Mustafa Kemal launched a war to eliminate the republic and overran Igdir.

[12] Turkish General Kâzım Karabekir commanded the armies but his forces were initially unable to take Igdir due to strong Armenian resistance.

[16] He was dismissed due to terror related investigations on 15 May 2020,[17] and Enver Ünlü, the Governor of the province,[18] was appointed as a trustee for the municipality on the same day.

This allows agricultural production including apples, tomatoes, cucumbers, peaches, pears, sugar beet, watermelons and melons.

Iğdır has a continental semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk, Trewartha: BS) with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters.

[22] Turkish MPs and specialists claim that the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor, a border town in Armenia, poses a health risk to Iğdır residents.

Construction on the memorial began in August 1997, and was opened to the public on October 5, 1999 by the Turkish Minister of State Ramazan Mirzaoğlu.

[28] Increasing agricultural production and the opening of a border gate with Nakhchivan in 1992 have enabled the town to be livelier and wealthier than its neighbours in the generally impoverished eastern Turkey.

Despite the fact that it has three strategically important neighbours, the border gate to Armenia is closed and there is no direct access to Iran, therefore this situation diminishes economic possibilities.