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Ağrı
Ağrı ( ku, Agirî; ) is the capital of Ağrı Province in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. Formerly known as Karaköse ( ku, Qerekose) from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise ( ota, قرهکلیسا, Karakilisa, lit=Black Church; ), the city is now named after Ağrı, the Turkish name of Mount Ararat''.'' History In the Ottoman Empire era, the area was called Karakilisa (). The current town center was founded around 1860 by a group of Armenian merchants from Bitlis with the name Karakilise () that became known to the local population as Karakise, and this version was turned officially to Karaköse at the beginning of the Republican era. This name was changed to Ağrı by 1946. In the years of 1927 to 1931, the region was under the occupation of the Kurdish separatist movements, which gained to establish an unrecognized state named Republic of Ararat which was led by several Kurdish leaders, some of the Main were Ibrahi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ağrı Province
The Ağrı Province ( tr, Ağrı ili, ku, Parêzgeha Agiriyê) is a province in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran to the east, Kars to the north, Erzurum to the northwest, Muş and Bitlis to the southwest, Van to the south, and Iğdır to the northeast. It has an area of 11,376 km² and a population of 535,435 as of 2020. The provincial capital is Ağrı, situated on a high plateau. Doğubayazıt was the capital of the province until 1946. The current governor is Süleyman Elban. The province is considered part of Western Armenia by Armenians and was part of the ancient province of Ayrarat of Kingdom of Armenia. Before the Armenian genocide, modern Ağri Province was part of the six Armenian vilayets. The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurdish majority. Districts Ağrı province is divided into eight districts (capital district in bold): * Ağrı * Diyadin * Doğubayazıt * Eleşkirt * Hamur * Patnos * Taşlıçay * Tutak Geography Ağ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat or , ''Ararat''; or is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian Highland with an elevation of ; Little Ararat's elevation is . The Ararat massif is about wide at ground base. The first recorded efforts to reach Ararat's summit were made in the Middle Ages, and Friedrich Parrot, Khachatur Abovian, and four others made the first recorded ascent in 1829. In Europe, the mountain has been called by the name Ararat since the Middle Ages, as it began to be identified with " mountains of Ararat" described in the Bible as the resting place of Noah's Ark, despite contention that does not refer specifically to a Mount Ararat. Despite lying outside the borders of modern Armenia, the mountain is the principal national symbol of Armenia and has been considered a sacred mountain by Armenians. It is fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ağrı Airport
Ağrı Ahmed-i Hani Airport is an airport in Ağrı, in eastern Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula .... The airport is situated about south of Ağrı's city center. Overview The airport was opened on 8 January 1998 as Ağrı Airport. It was temporarily closed down in 2009 to widen and upgrade the apron and runway, which was completed in 2011. In 2015, a new terminal building was completed and the airport's name was changed to Ağrı Ahmed-i Hani Airport. Airlines and destinations Statistics Ground transport The D.965 connects the airport to Ağrı. References Airports in Turkey Buildings and structures in Ağrı Province Transport in Ağrı Province {{Turkey-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleşkirt
Eleşkirt ( ku, Zêdikan) is a town and district of Ağrı Province in Turkey. Its name is a transference from Alashkert ( hy, Ալաշկերտ, translit=Alaškert), the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale. It was known as ''Vagharshakert'' in medieval sources. 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. The mayor is Ramazan Yakut (Felicity Party). Notable people *Şakiro Şakir Deniz also known as Şakiro (born in 1936 in Eleşkirt–1996, Izmir, Turkey), was a Kurdish Dengbêj singer. His songs were often recorded on cassettes and distributed illegally, when the Kurdish language faced limitations in cultural exp ... References Populated places in Ağrı Province Ski areas and resorts in Turkey Districts of Ağrı Province Kurdish settlements in Turkey {{Ağrı-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesim Gökçe
Cesim Gökçe (born 5 May 1968) is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Ağrı since 1 November 2015. Born in Ağrı, Gökçe completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Ağrı. He graduated from Atatürk University as an agricultural engineer in 1991. In 2011, he was promoted to Ağrı Province local authority general secretary. He resigned from his post to enter politics. He joined the ruling AK Party, and was elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in the November 2015 general election as an MP from Ağrı Province. In 2019, he left the AKP and joined the newly founded Future Party. Gökçe is married, and has three children. He speaks Kurdish and Arabic. See also * 26th Parliament of Turkey The 26th Parliament of the Turkish Republic was elected in a snap general election held on 1 November 2015 to the Grand National Assembly. It succeeded the short-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Turkey
Turkey is divided into 81 provinces ( tr, il). Each province is divided into a number of districts (). Each provincial government is seated in the central district (). For non- metropolitan municipality designated provinces, the central district bears the name of the province (e.g. the city/district of Rize is the central district of Rize Province). Each province is administered by an appointed governor () from the Ministry of the Interior. List of provinces Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate codes. Initially, the order of the codes matched the alphabetical order of the province names. After Zonguldak (code 67), the ordering is not alphabetical, but in the order of the creation of provinces, as these provinces were created more recently and thus their plate numbers were assigned after the initial set of codes had been assigned. Codes The province's ISO code suffix number, the first two digits of the vehicle regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamidiye (cavalry)
The ''Hamidiye'' regiments (literally meaning "belonging to Hamid", full official name ''Hamidiye Hafif Süvari Alayları'', Hamidiye Light Cavalry Regiments) were well-armed, irregular, mainly Sunni Kurdish but also Turkish, Circassian,Palmer, Alan, ''Verfall und Untergang des Osmanischen Reiches'', Heyne, München 1994 (engl. Original: London 1992), pp. 249, 258, 389. .Van Bruinessen, Martin''Agha, Shaikh and State - The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan'' London: Zed Books, 1992, p. 185. Van Bruinessen mentions the "occasional" recruiting of a Turkish tribe (the Qarapapakh) Turkmen, Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw, ''History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977, vol. 2, p. 246. Yörük,Öhrig, Bruno, ''Meinungen und Materialien zur Geschichte der Karakeçili Anatoliens'', in: Matthias S. Laubscher (Ed.), Münchener Ethnologische Abhandlungen, 20, Akademischer Verlag, München 1998 (Edition Anacon), zug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatma Salman Kotan
Fatma Salman Kotan (born 1970) is a Turkish accountant, politician and Member of Parliament for Ağrı representing Justice and Development Party. She is a graduate of economics from Atatürk University in Erzurum Erzurum (; ) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province and is 1,900 meters (6,233 feet) above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 367,250 in 2010. The city uses the double-headed eagle as .... Speaking at the Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association in August 2007 she gave her life story as follows: ''My mother was my father's second wife. In our part of the world if a man is rich he will marry more than once. My mother died because of my father's pressure in her to have a son. I was the second child. The doctors told my mother it would be dangerous to have a third but my mother told us she had to make my father Sheikh Ahmet Salman happy, to continue his line by having a son. The doctors said it would be fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nizamettin Ariç
Nizamettin Ariç ( ku, Nîzamettîn Arîç; born 1956 in Ağrı, Turkey) is a contemporary Kurdish singer, composer and director. He was exposed to traditional Kurdish bard music or '' dengbêj'' at an early age, but until 1980 was professionally active as a singer of Turkish-language folksongs, including songs that he himself had translated from Kurdish to Turkish. In 1976, he began performing for Ankara Radio. In 1979, at a concert in his hometown of Ağrı, he sang a love song in Kurdish, and was arrested for spreading propaganda. Upon finding he was to be sentenced to 5–15 years, he sought political asylum in Germany and has resided in Berlin since. Even though he was unable to perform in Turkey, as music critic Orhan Kahyaoğlu notes, Nizamettin Ariç's recordings have been influential on musicians in Turkey, especially Kardeş Türküler (who has covered several of his songs), and film/TV music arranger Aytekin Gazi Ataş. His movie '' A Song for Beko'' was one of the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Ararat
The Republic of Ararat, or Kurdish Republic of Ararat,Abbas Vali, ''Essays on the origins of Kurdish nationalism'', Mazda Publishers, 2003, p. 199./ref> ( ku, کۆماری ئارارات, translit=Komara Agiriyê and ku, Komara Araratê) was a self-proclaimed Kurdish state. It was located in eastern Turkey, centred on Karaköse Province. " Agirî" is the Kurdish name for Ararat. History The Republic of Ararat, led by the central committee of Xoybûn party, declared independence on 28 October 1927 or 1928, during a wave of rebellion among Kurds in southeastern Turkey. As the leader of the military was appointed Ihsan Nuri, and Ibrahim Heski was put in charge of the civilian government. At the first meeting of Xoybûn, Ihsan Nuri Pasha was declared the military commander of the Ararat Rebellion. Ibrahim Heski was made the leader of the civilian administration. In October 1927, Kurd Ava, or Kurdava, a village near Mount Ararat, was designated as the provisional capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celal Adan
Celal Adan (born 10 September 1951 in Ağrı) is a Turkish politician. He was elected in 2011 to the 24th Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Adan had previously represented the True Path Party (DYP) in the 21st Assembly (1999 - 2002), and later been the party's deputy chairman (renamed Democratic Party in 2007). In the 1980s and 1990s Adan had a close relationship with Mehmet Ağar Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born on 30 October 1951) is a Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security (effe ...; in the early 1980s he was tried and acquitted of being involved in the 1980 murder of trade unionist Kemal Türkler. Hurriyet Daily News, 16 September 1999Smells like Susurluk/ref> References 1951 births Living people People from Ağrı Nationalist Movement Party politicians Democrat Party (Turkey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Heski
Ibrahim Heski or Ibrahim Pasha Haski TelloDana Adams Schmidt, ''Journey among brave men'', Little, Brown, 1964p. 57. ( ku, Biroyê Heskê Têlî;? - July 25, 1931, Siah Cheshmeh, Iran), was a Kurdish soldier, politician and president of the Kurdish Republic of Ararat. He was from the Jalali tribe. Life His father's name is Hesk and mother's name is Têlî. He was a member of the Hesesori tribe which is one of the blanch of Jalali tribe. Different sources mentioned him as "Ibrahim Agha", "Ibrahim Pasha", "Heskizâde Ibrahim", "Bırho", "Bro Haski Tello", "Bro Haski Talu" and so on. British author and adventurer Rosita Forbes described him as ''the hero of the region was a wild and gallant freebooter called Ibrahim Agha Huske Tello''. During World War I, he fought against Russian troops. First Ararat Rebellion In 1925, he participated in the Sheikh Said Rebellion. And after the failure of the rebellion, he fled to Mount Ararat. In 1926, he commanded Hesenan, Jalali, Haydaran tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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