On September 29, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Zhaparov, as part of his participation in the Fourth World Nomad Games, visited the memorial "Kyrgyzlar Turbesi" in Iznik.

The head of state got acquainted with the memorial and recite a prayer in honor of Kyrgyz soldiers.

“Kyrgyzlar Turbesi” is a Memorial to the memory of the Kyrgyz soldiers who fell in the battles for the capture of the city of Iznik. According to the Islamic Encyclopedia, this is a tomb from the early Ottoman period (XIV century).

The tomb was built by Sultan Orhan Gazi in 1332 in memory of the Kyrgyz warriors who contributed to the creation of the Anatolian Seljuk. In October 2004, a monument to a warrior with crossed arms by the Kyrgyz sculptor Turgunbay Sadykov was erected in the garden.

The memorial consists of two rooms connected by a small passage. The mausoleum attracts attention with its decoration in typical Byzantine style. There are eight sarcophagi in the tomb: seven adults and one child.