Kurdish Locals & Abandoned Ghost Lands In Deepest Turkey 🇹🇷

🇹🇷 Turkey - Armenia border has been closed for almost 3 decades now. But the ghost lands between these two countries are full of ancient sites, interesting villages, friendly Kurdish villagers and abandoned places.
In this Turkey travel vlog, we spend a long day exploring the deepest, most remote and isolated lands of Eastern Turkey.
First we met a group of Kurdish shepherd kids. They showed us old stones with cross carvings and Armenian texts in a secluded valley. Afterwards we met a local man who took us the ruins of an old Armenian church. Along the way, we also saw some old graves with human bones, dug up by treasure hunters.
After the church, we visited a deserted Turkish military outpost right on the border. We climbed up the watchtower and saw the Russian military watchtower on the Armenian soil.
From Kars Province we drove to Iğdır Province through Iğdır - Nakhchivan Highway. Our final destination was a medieval Armenian cemetery, located at the foothills of Mount Ararat in Iğdır. We could see Yerevan from that very spot.
►Chapters
00:00 Video Intro
00:26 Exploring with Kurdish shepherd kids
01:18 “My name is Ararat”
01:55 Meeting a local Kurdish man
03:12 Ruins of an old church
03:57 Graves dug by treasure hunters
04:27 Abandoned Turkish military outpost
05:18 Climbing up the watchtower
06:21 Medieval Armenian cemetery at Mount Ararat’s foothills
© Argun Konuk