Türkgözü (formerly: ''Badele'') is a village in the

Posof District Posof District is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Posof.İlçe ...

Ardahan Province Ardahan Province ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Erdêxanê, ) is a province in the north-east of Turkey, bordering Georgia and Armenia. The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan. Demographics With 94,932 inhabitants in 2021, Ardahan was the third ...

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. Its population is 175 (2021). It is a

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Vale A vale is a type of valley. Vale may also refer to: Places Georgia * Vale, Georgia, a town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region Norway * Våle, a historic municipality Portugal * Vale (Santa Maria da Feira), a former civil parish in the municipali ...

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. Türkgözü is north of the province center

Ardahan Ardahan (, ka, არტაანი, tr, hy, Արդահան, translit=Ardahan Russian: Ардаган) is a city in northeastern Turkey, near the Georgian border. It is the capital of Ardahan Province. History Ancient and medieval Ardahan ...

and northeast of Posof. The residents of Türkgözü are

Kipchaks The Kipchaks or Qipchaks, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were a Turkic nomadic people and confederation that existed in the Middle Ages, inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe. First mentioned in the 8th century as part of the Se ...

, descendants of

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from

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, who came to the place from Akhaltsikhe region in the 18th century. In the past, many people left the village for economic reasons. With the opening of the border checkpoint in 1997, the emigration came to an end. Currently, 70 families live in the village. A number of historical structures in the village, among them churches and graveyards, point to the early settlement of the place, which was formerly called Badele. The village is set up on a plain that separates Kodiyan Plateau from Kobliyan Valley. The Posof Creek, running south-east of the village, forms part of the border to Georgia. There are three lakes around the settlement. Neighboring villages of Türkgözü in Turkey are Armutveren and Sarıdarı. The road D.955 (

European route E691 European route E 691 is a European B class road running from Armenia through Georgia to Turkey. Route * **: Ashtarak () - Gyumri - Ashotsk * **: Ninotsminda - Akhalkalaki - Akhaltsikhe **: Akhaltsikhe - Vale * **: Türkgözü - Çamlı ...

) from Ardahan to

Damal Damal, formerly Petereke, is a town in Ardahan Province of Turkey, on the road from Kars to Posof. It is the seat of Damal District.

passes through Türkgözü. The economy of the settlement relies mainly on

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

livestock Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals ...

beekeeping Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made beehives. Honey bees in the genus '' Apis'' are the most-commonly-kept species but other honey-producing bees such as ''Melipona'' stingless bees are also kept. ...

and trade. The place is widely known for its "Badele apples".

Notable natives

Oğuz Atalay Oghuz or Oğuz may refer to: *an early Turkic word for "tribe", see Oghuz (tribe) * Oghuz languages, southwestern branch of the Turkic language family * Oghuz Turks, the Turkic groups speaking Oghuz languages * Oghuz Khan, a legendary and semi-myth ...

, professor and rector of Izmir University *

Kemal İrfan Akkuş Kemal may refer to: ;People * Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a Turkish politician and the first president of Turkey * Kemal (name), a common Turkish name ;Places * Kemalpaşa, İzmir Province, Turkey * Mustafakemalpaşa, Bursa Province, Turkey ;See also ...

, former director general of Labor and Employment Relations Agency of Turkey

References

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