Tutak
| Tutak | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Ağrı | |||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 33 ' N , 42 ° 46' E | |||
| Height : | 1565 m | |||
| Residents : | 6,747 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 472 | |||
| Postal code : | 04 700 | |||
| License plate : | 04 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Mayor : | Bülent Duru ( BBP ) | |||
| Website: | ||||
| Tutak County | ||||
| Residents : | 30,505 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 1,407 km² | |||
| Population density : | 22 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Erkan İsa Erat | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Tutak ( Kurdish Dûtax or historically Enteb , Armenian Դութախ Duthakh ) is a district town and a district in Turkey .
geography
Both belong to the Ağrı Province and are located in Eastern Anatolia . The district of Tutak is located in the west of the province and borders the provinces of Muş and Erzurum . The town of Tutak is located on the route from Ağrı to Van, on the Murat River . It houses around 22 percent of the district's population.
The district is the third smallest in the province in terms of population. The Tutak Plain, which is surrounded by several high mountains, forms the majority of the district; in the north the Çakmak Dağ (2400 m) and Kılıç Dağ (2546 m), in the south the Gel Dağ (2200 m) and in the east the Aladağ. The climate is continental with long hard winters and hot dry summers. The vegetation mostly consists of steppe plants; Forests are not just individual groves on the rivers.
Administratively, the district is divided into 80 villages ( Köy ) with an average population of 297 inhabitants in addition to the district town . Three of them have more than 1,000 inhabitants: Oğlaksuyu (1,289), Dorukdibi (1,173) and Aşağıköşkköy (1,118 pop .) -
politics
Fırat Öztürk was elected co-mayor in the 2014 local elections. On January 12, 2017, he was deposed and installed by the liquidator Erkan İsa Erat appointed by the Ankara government. Öztürk was arrested on January 23 and imprisoned on January 29, 2017.
In the local elections on March 31, 2019, the BBP candidate , Bülent Duru , won with 19.24 percent , just ahead of the AKP candidate ( Yavuz Özcan ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu (Nufusune.com) , accessed on May 5, 2019
- ^ A b Pro-Kurdish district mayor in Ağrı arrested on terror charges - Stockholm Center for Freedom . In: Stockholm Center for Freedom . January 30, 2017 ( stockholmcf.org [accessed August 19, 2018]).
- ↑ HDP: Detained Kurdish Co-Mayors. (PDF) SS 3 , accessed on August 19, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Results of the 2019 local elections , accessed on May 12, 2019
- ↑ Results of the 2019 local elections , accessed on May 12, 2019
