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 "pat ...
'' (village) in the
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
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. Its population is 2,671 (2022).
Etymology
The village's name ''Panik'' is an antiquated word in
Armenian
Armenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...
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.