Eleşkirt, or Kurdish Zêdikan, is a town and district of Ağrı Province in Turkey. Its name is a transference from Alashkert (Armenian:ԱլաշկերտAlaškert), the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale.
At the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 approximately half of the population consisted of Armenians and the rest of Kurds and Turks.