Panik () is a ''

köy Köy is the word for "village" in Western Oghuz languages that are geographically western, such as Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Crimean Tatar. It is a loanword from Persian ''gūy'' (or probably more likely ''kūy''), which originally means "path ...

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Iğdır District Iğdır District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central" in Turkish) is a district of the Iğdır Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Iğdır.Iğdır Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,671 (2022).

Etymology

The village's name ''Panik'' is an antiquated word in Armenian referring to something artful or eloquent.

History

Panik's name was changed in 1960 to Özdemir. However, the name was reverted to Panik in 2014. Panik was an Armenian inhabited settlement prior to the Armenian-Turkish war in 1920, with a population of 960 in 1886.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Panik, Igdir Kurdish settlements in Turkey Villages in Iğdır District Former Armenian communities in Iğdır Province