Çarpanak Island

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Carpanak Adası, formerly Ktuts or Ktouts (Armenian Կտուց կղզի Ktuts kghzi ) is a small island in Lake Van. It is located half a mile from the eastern shore and about 22 km northwest of the city of Van. By 1917, there were some Armenians Today the island is uninhabited. Until then, the island also had an Armenian Apostolic monastery, called Ktuts Monastery. Its ruins can still be seen today.

During the massacre of the Armenians 1894-1896, the island served as a refuge for many of Sultan Abdulhamid II persecuted Armenian Christians; the situation improved ever so slightly to the genocide of the Armenians from 1915 to 1917, when the Turkish gendarmes to the access to the island procured and all Armenian inhabitants deported. The uninhabited island is now a bird refuge and nature reserve. Since 2007 the island for tourism by means of a ferry can be reached.