Ağrı

Ağrı (Kurdish: Qerekose) formerly Karaköse or Karakilise (before 1919), is the capital of Ağrı Province at the eastern end of Turkey, near the border with Iran. The population of Ağrı is made up predominantly of Azeri, Kurdish and mostly Turkish people ethnically. In the Ottoman Empire era the area was called Şorbulak, and Karakilise (black church). It then mutated to Karaköse (the black man with no moustache) towards the end of the Ottoman period. The name "Ağrı" might have been given by the Turkish government because of the Ağrı rebellion. This is a very poor region with extremely cold winters. Most people live by grazing animals on the mountainside. Few people manage to attend university; people tend to marry in their teens and...