Dargeçit
Dargeçit | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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Province (il) : | Mardin | |||
Coordinates : | 37 ° 33 ' N , 41 ° 43' E | |||
Height : | 900 m | |||
Residents : | 14,700 (2010) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 482 | |||
Postal code : | 47750 | |||
License plate : | 47 | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2012) | ||||
Mayor : | Zeynep Sipçik ( BDP ) | |||
Website: | ||||
Dargeçit County | ||||
Residents : | 27,828 (2010) | |||
Surface: | 539 km² | |||
Population density : | 52 inhabitants per km² | |||
Kaymakam : | Adem Unal | |||
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Dargeçit ( Aramaic ܟܪܒܘܪܢ Kerburan ), formerly Kerboran , also Kfar Boran , is a city and at the same time the name of a district in the Turkish province of Mardin in southeastern Anatolia . The city, whose Turkish name means narrow passage , is located on a hill.
location
Dargeçit is located in the northeast of the province and borders the provinces of Batman , Siirt and Şırnak . Yayvantepe is located about 87 km east of the provincial capital Mardin and 21 km southeast of Midyat. Other localities are distributed as follows - distances are given for navigable routes, or in brackets for straight-line distance:
Hasankeyf 63 km (33 km) |
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Arıca 34 km (25 km) |
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Anıtlı 20 km (12 km) |
Öğündük 48 km (23 km) |
Cizre 74 km |
population
The city of Dargeçit has 14,700 and the district 27,828 inhabitants (as of 2010). Originally a Christian Syrian Orthodox place, Dargeçit is now predominantly inhabited by Kurds .
history
Before the genocide of the Armenians , Kurds, Armenians and Arameans lived in the village. Until the murder of Andreas Demir Lahdik , the mayor, in 1979, Arameans continued to live in Dargecit. Today mainly Kurds live in Dargecit. After the end of the peace negotiations between the PKK and Turkey, fighting broke out in Dargecit. 100 houses are said to have been destroyed. A curfew was declared on December 11, 2015, which was lifted after 19 days on December 30, 2015.
politics
In the 2014 local elections, Zeynep Şipçik and Sinan Akan from Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi were elected co-mayors with 60% of the vote. Şipçik was arrested on March 31, 2016. On September 11, 2016, an administrator was appointed.
Personalities
- Mor Filiksinos Yusuf Çetin (* 1954), Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar
- Fuat Deniz (1967–2007), sociologist and writer
- Josef Özer (* 1983), pop musician
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 22, 2012
- ↑ a b HDP: Detained Kurdish Co-Mayors. (PDF) p. 7 , accessed on August 19, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Residents of Turkish town inspect damage after 19-day curfew lifted . ( yahoo.com [accessed August 19, 2018]).