The bridge stands about twenty kilometres south of Iğdır, south-east of the village of Aliköçek, over the Aliköçek stream that runs between Alibeyköy and Aliköçek.
It is laid out north to south and built throughout of neatly cut black stone set in horasan mortar, with a paved walking surface. It measures roughly ten to twelve metres long, three metres high and 2.30 metres wide.
Part of it is still standing. Its importance comes from its place on the caravan road that ran from Doğubayazıt through Iğdır and Kars to Batumi. The provincial directorate reports that its own surface survey in the area dated the bridge to the Middle Ages, and that it is the only example of its kind here to have come down from that time.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Iğdır as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -3.2 °C in January to 26 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (48 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
