Battle of Manzikert

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan marked the 953rd anniversary of the Battle of Manzikert on Aug. 26 during a ceremony honoring the pivotal victory for the Turks in Anatolia.

The next cabinet meeting scheduled for Aug. 25 will be held in the eastern city of Bitlis' Ahlat district, rather than in the capital Ankara, to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Manzikert.

The battle fought in 1071 between the Byzantine and Seljuk empires was a pivotal event that led to the Turkification of Anatolia.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has marked the 952nd anniversary of the historic Battle of Manzikert, also known as Malazgirt in Turkish, during a ceremony honoring the pivotal victory for the Turks in Anatolia.

In the studies carried out to determine the area where the 1071 Battle of Manzikert, known as the victory that led the Turks to first enter Anatolia, was fought, drones and magnetometers are used to detect war objects.

An inscription belonging to an unspecified period before the 1071 Battle of Manzikert, known as the victory that led the Turks to first enter Anatolia, has been found in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, with the head of the excavation informing it's the "evidence of the Turkish presence in the 10th century."

The unfinished restoration process of a UNESCO-listed mosque complex located in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas will continue after four years of a break.

The restoration of the 800-year-old Divriği Great Mosque and Şifaiye Madrasah was started in 2017, however, it was stopped after two years for financial reasons.

A group of Turkish academics started a study to determine the location of the Battle of Manzikert, a conflict that reverberates deeply every after many centuries in the soil of Anatolia and world history.

Turkey's president on Aug. 25 marked the anniversary of the Battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert), a historic victory for the Turks in Anatolia nearly a millennium ago, praising Turkish people's determination to protect their independence.

Terrorist groups in both Turkey and abroad are being used as "pawns" by power who "have set their eyes" on the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Aug. 26 in the Malazgirt district of the eastern province of Muş.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has marked the 946th anniversary of the Battle of Malazgirt, the victory of Seljuk Sultan Alparslan against the Byzantine Empire on Aug. 26, 1071, in the Malazgirt district of the eastern province of Muş. 

Erdoğan gave a speech to mark the battle, which opened Anatolia to Turks, in the area that also features the 1071 Victory Monument.