İpekyolu is a municipality and
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of
Van Province
Van Province ( tr, Van ili, ku, Parezgêha Wanê, Armenian: Վանի մարզ) is a province in the Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. It is 19,069 km2 in area and had a population of 1,035,418 a ...
,
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 in ...
. Its area is 956 km
2, and its population is 348,046 (2022).
The district İpekyolu was created at the
2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district
Tuşba. It covers the central and eastern part of the agglomeration of
Van and the adjacent countryside. The name ''İpekyolu'' means
Silk road; Van was an important stop on the silk road.
Politics
On 30 March 2014, Aygül Bidav from the
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) was elected the first mayor of İpekyolu. But a trustee was appointed on the 11 September 2016. In the local elections in March 2019 Azim Yacan from the
Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) became Mayor. Following Şehzade Kurt was elected Co-Mayor of İpekyolu. In November 2019, Yacan and Kurt were arrested accused of being a member of a terrorist organization and a trustee was appointed. The current
District Governor is Sinan Aslan.
Composition
There are 51
neighbourhoods in İpekyolu District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
* Ağzıkara
* Aktaş
* Alipaşa
* Arıtoprak
* Aşağıçitli
* Aşağıgölalan
* Bahçivan
* Baklatepe
* Bakraçlı
* Beşçatak
* Bostaniçi
* Buzhane
* Çalımlı
* Cevdetpaşa
* Cumhuriyet
* Değirmenarkı
* Değirmenköy
* Dereüstü
* Dibekli
* Eminpaşa
* Erçek
* Esenler
* Gövelek
* Hacıbekir
* Hafiziye
* Halilağa
* Hatuniye
* Ilıkaynak
* Irgat
* Karagündüz
* Karakoç
* Karpuzalanı
* Karşıyaka
* Kavuncu
* Kaymaklı
* Kevenli
* Kıratlı
* Köşebaşı
* Ortanca
* Sarmaç
* Selimbey
* Şerefiye
* Serhat
* Seyitfehimarvasi
* Vali Mithatbey
* Yalı
* Yalınağaç
* Yatıksırt
* Yenimahalle
* Yukarıgölalan
* Yukarıgüneyce
References
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Districts of Van Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Silk Road
Kurdish settlements in Turkey