Karlı

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the singer of the same name see Songül Karlı .

Karlı
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Hakkari
District ( ilçe ) :	Yüksekova
Coordinates :	37 ° 29 '  N , 44 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 29 '14 "  N , 44 ° 15' 6"  E
Height :	1950  m
Residents :	1,318 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90)
Postal code :	30300
License plate :	30th
Structure and administration (as of 2010)
Muhtar :	Kerem Ozcanan

Karlı (kurd. Befircan ) is a village in the Yüksekova district of the Turkish province of Hakkâri . Karlı is located in Southeast Anatolia at 1,950 m above sea level, approx. 14 km south of Yüksekova.

Karlı means snowy or snowy . The Kurdish name Befircan comes from the word “Befir”, which also means “snow”. The name is registered with the land registry office in the form Befircan. This form is also documented in various censuses and two dictionaries of Ottoman place names.

In 1985, 3,317 people lived in Karlı. In 2009 the village had 1,318 inhabitants. The hamlets of Beşpınar (Kurd. Badawa), Çiçeközü (Kurd. Gewki), Karabağ (Kurd. Xirvateng) and Kilimli (Kurd. Member) belong to Karlı. In 2010, the health authorities learned that 15 people in the hamlet of Karabağ had died of cancer at the time and 7 other people were being treated. Despite several investigations, no cause for the accumulation could be determined.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.e-tkbm.gov.tr ( Memento from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ For example: Tahir Sezen: Osmanlı Yer Adları. Ankara 2006, p. 158. Series of publications by the State Archives of the Prime Minister's Office and Nuri Akbayar: Osmanlı Yer Adları Sözlüğü. 2001
3. ↑ www.yerelnet.org.tr
4. ↑ www.report.tuik.gov.tr ( Memento from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )