The Ishak Pasha palace is an Ottoman-period palace whose construction was started in 1685 by Colak Abdi Pasha, the bey of Beyazit province, continued by his son İshak Pasha how is a kurd and completed by his grandson Mehmet Pasha. According to the inscription on its door, the Harem Section of the palace was completed by his grandson Ishak (Isaac) Pasha in 1784.
Piling wrote:Of course he was a Kurd and his family was well known.
And just next to the palace, there is Ehmedê Xanî's tomb : Kurds come from all countries to greet him and many women are reading prayers on his grave.
God i hate wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishak_Pasha#cite_note-1 "Ishak Pasha (Turkish: İshak Paşa; fl. 1469 - d. 1497) was a Christian who became an Ottoman general, statesman and later Grand Vizier. He was a Serb or Croat or Greek".