Çağlayan () is a municipality ( belde) in the

Erzincan District Erzincan District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central" in Turkish) is a district of the Erzincan Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Erzincan.Erzincan Province Erzincan Province ( tr, ; ku, Parezgêha Erzînganê) is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. In Turkey, its capital is also called Erzincan. The population was 236,034 in 2018. Geography Erzincan is traversed by the northeaste ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The village is populated by

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

of the Abasan and Balan tribes and had a population of 1,699 in 2021. It is divided into the neighborhoods of Atatürk, Cumhuriyet, Derebağ, Erdene, Mertekli, Şelale and Yamaçlı.

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Kurdish settlements in Erzincan Province Town municipalities in Turkey Populated places in Erzincan District {{ErzincanDistrict-geo-stub