Tutak

Tutak lies in the upper Murat valley, where the river winds west through the highlands towards Malazgirt. Historical records also call the district Antab. Old fortifications, church ruins and carved gravestones in its villages bear witness to the different communities and rulers who lived in this region. In the sixteenth century the upper Murat country was contested by Ottoman and Safavid forces, before returning to Ottoman control in 1578.