Doğanyol ( ku, Keferdîz) is a district of

Malatya Province Malatya Province ( tr, ; ku, Parezgêha Meletîyê) is a province of Turkey. It is part of a larger mountainous area. The capital of the province is Malatya. The area of Malatya province is 12,313 km². Malatya Province had a population of ...

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 mayor is Hakan Bay ( AKP).

Demographics

The town 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 ...

History

Doğanyol has become district in 1990 during

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...

presidency. Doğanyol is 90 km far away to

Malatya Malatya ( hy, Մալաթիա, translit=Malat'ya; Syro-Aramaic ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ku, Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city ha ...

city center. Doğanyol has 16 neighborhoods. They are Çolak, İshak, Akkent, Behramlı, Burç, Damlı, Gevheruşağı, Gökçe, Gümüşsu, Koldere, Konurtay, Mezra, Poyraz, Ulutaş, Yalınca, Yeşilköy. In 2018 the population of Doğanyol was 4420. On 24 Jan 2020 the town was impacted by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake.Recent Earthquakes Near Doğanyol, Malatya, Turkey

References

Populated places in Malatya Province Populated places on the Euphrates River Districts of Malatya Province {{Malatya-geo-stub Kurdish settlements in Turkey