According to the official municipality page the town was founded in 1670 by a certain İsmail Bey who was probably a member of Karakoyunlu dynasty ( which had founded a short lived Turkmen empire in the 14th and 15th centuries ) . Local Armenian tradition held that the town was founded by the Apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew , patron saints of the Armenian Church . While the author of a study on the village finds this story to be apocryphal , he believes Armenians were the original founders of the village . All the Armenians were expelled or massacred during the course of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 . tr : Yazıkonak , Elazığ
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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