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İshak Paşa Sarayı is one of the places I dreamed to visit one day...

It's the silent contemplation of the atlases lay down with belly on a carpet, between the ten and thirteen years, that it gives the wish to leave all. You start thinking at regions like It is found again to think to us next to regions like the Banat, Kashmir, or the Caspian; to the music that resound, to the sights you will meet, to the ideas that will wait for you… When this desire resists to the first attacks of the good sense, you start to find some excuses. But are just for a song excuses. The truth is that you don’t know how to call what is pushing you. Something in you grows and cast off the moorings, till the day in which, without many confidences, you finally leave. A journey does not need reasons.
Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.
(Nicolas Bouvier - L'Usage du monde)

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E' la contemplazione silenziosa degli atlanti su un tappeto a pancia in giù, tra i dieci e i tredici anni, che dà la voglia di piantar tutto. Ci si ritrova a pensare a regioni come il Banato, il Kashmir, o il Caspio; alle musiche che vi risuonano, agli sguardi che si incontrano, alle idee che vi aspettano... Quando poi il desiderio resiste ai primi attacchi del buon senso, si inventano delle scuse. Ma non ne trovate che da quattro soldi. La verità é che non sapete come chiamare ciò che vi spinge. Qualcosa in voi cresce e molla gli ormeggi, fino al giorno in cui, senza tante sicurezze, partite per davvero.
Un viaggio non ha bisogno di motivi. Non ci mette molto a dimostrare che si giustifica da solo. Pensate di andare a fare un viaggio, ma subito é il viaggio che vi fa, o vi sfa.
(Nicolas Bouvier - La polvere del mondo)

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Ishak Pasha Palace (Turkish: İshak Paşa Sarayı; Kurdish: Koşka Îshaq Paşa) is a semi-ruined palace and administrative complex located in the Doğubeyazıt district of Ağrı province of Turkey.

The Ishak Pasha palace is an Ottoman-period palace whose construction was started in 1685 by Colak Abdi Pasha, the bey of Bayazit province. According to the inscription on its door, the Harem Section of the palace was completed by his grandson Ishak (Isaac) Pasha in 1784.

The Palace is more of a complex than a palace; it is the second administrative campus after the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul and the most famous of the palaces built in recent decades.

The palace is built on a hill at the side of a mountain 5 km (3 mi) east of Doğubeyazıt. It was the last large monumental structure in the Ottoman Empire from the "Lale Devri" period. It is one of the most distinguished and magnificent examples of the 18th century Ottoman architecture and is very valuable in terms of art history. According to the top of the door inscription at the Harem Section it was constructed in 1784 (1199 H.).

As the ground building sits on is a valley slope, it is rocky and hard. Despite the fact that it is at the center of the Old Beyazıt city its three sides (north, west, south) are steep and sloped. There is a suitable flat area only to the east. The entrance of the palace is on that side, and it is also its narrowest façade.

As the palace was built in an age when castles ceased to be special and firearms were developed and were abundantly available, its defense towards the hills on the east is weak. Its main gate is the weakest point in that respect. The structure of the main gate is no different than those seen in the palaces built in Istanbul and elsewhere in Anatolia and has a neat stone workmanship and carving.
Inner court.

The İshak Pasha Palace is a rare example of the historical Turkish palaces.

The palace was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 100 new lira banknote of 2005-2009.
from Wikipedia