Silopi
| Silopi | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Şırnak | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 15 ' N , 42 ° 28' E | |||
| Residents : | 94,174 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 486 | |||
| Postal code : | 73400 | |||
| License plate : | 73 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 11 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Adalet Fidan ( HDP ) | |||
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| Silopi district | ||||
| Residents : | 134,754 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 831 km² | |||
| Population density : | 162 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Ali Arıkan | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Silopi is a city in the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Şırnak in southeastern Anatolia . The district town is home to 70 percent of the district's population. Silopi is located in the south of the province and borders on Syria (20 km) and Iraq (51 km). The majority of the population are Kurds .
The Ibrahim Khalil border crossing to Iraq is 50 kilometers southeast of the city of Silopi . The trade in oil and goods of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region runs through this border crossing. The Kirkuk - Ceyhan pipeline runs through Silopi.
The district was created in 1960 by splitting off from the district of Cizre and, in addition to the district town ( Merkez ), has three other municipalities ( Belediye ): Başverimli (8,990), Çalışkan (5,181) and Görümlü (5,101 inhabitants) as well as 23 villages ( Köy , majority Köyler ) , eight of which have over 1,000 residents. Çİftlİkköy (3,011) and Bostanci (2,707 inh .) Are the largest of these. An average of 926 people live in each of the 23 villages.
history
The area was for a time under the rule of the princes of Botan . One of the regents was Süleyman (Kurdish abbreviation Silo), who administered today's Silopi. The plain in which the place lay was therefore called Silopi (Silo's plain).
In 1991, thousands of Kurdish refugees from Iraq, who fled from Saddam Hussein's troops, were taken in and cared for in Silopi.
In December 2015, fighting broke out in and around Silopi between the Turkish army and PKK units . A 24-hour curfew was imposed on Silopi on December 14th. On January 19, 2016, the curfew was suspended from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. On April 5, 2018, the curfew was still in effect from 9:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.
politics
In the 2014 local elections, Emine Esmer was re-elected mayor of the Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi . Ahmet Toloğ acted as co-mayor. On March 4, 2016, Esmer was arrested. An administrator was appointed for Silopi. On September 3, 2016, Ahmet Toloğ was arrested. Toloğ was released on February 20.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ve İlçelere Göre Nüfus Bilgileri (Nufusune.com) , accessed on April 23, 2019
- ↑ Blaine Harden: TURKEY TO MOVE IRAQI REFUGEES . In: Washington Post . April 16, 1991, ISSN 0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed August 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Luisa Seeling: Forgotten Front. In the shadow of the war in Syria and IS terror, the fight between Ankara and the Kurds flares up again with full force in southeastern Turkey. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 21, 2015, p. 7.
- ↑ Curfew Declared in Şırnak . In: Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi . ( bianet.org [accessed August 10, 2018]).
- ^ Document. Accessed August 10, 2018 (English).
- ^ Curfew in Silopi Reduced to Half Day . In: Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi . ( bianet.org [accessed August 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Milliyet, March 4, 2016
- ^ HDP: We Will Not Concede to the Trustee Coup on Municipalities. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
- ↑ HDP: Detained Kurdish Co-Mayors. February 14, 2018, SS 8 , accessed on August 10, 2018 .
