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The monument at Iğdır stands 43.50 metres tall, and the provincial directorate describes it as the tallest monument in Türkiye.
It was raised, in the directorate's account, because of what happened to Iğdır and its villages between 1915 and 1920. That account states that the area was among those worst affected by Armenian killings, that more than eighty thousand of the town's people were killed, and that those who survived had to leave their homes; the monument, it says, followed from that as a natural demand. The page carries the word soykırım — genocide — in quotation marks, as does the record's own name, and it offers no further account of the events.
Our inventory also holds a separate record called Anıt Müze in Iğdır, which may be this same site.
