Aşkale is a town and district of the Erzurum province of Turkey. The mayor is Enver Başaran (AKP). The population is 12,509 (as of 2010).
Kandilli Ski Resort, which hosts
cross-country skiing and
biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...
competitions at some international winter sports events, is situated in Aşkale.
Labour camps for non-Muslims
In 1942, the
Varlık Vergisi
The Varlık Vergisi (, "wealth tax" or "capital tax") was a tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens in Turkey in 1942, with the stated aim of raising funds for the country's defense in case of an eventual entry into World War II. The underlying re ...
(, "wealth tax" or "capital tax") was imposed on the minority
non-Muslim citizens of Turkey (mainly
Jews
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,
Greeks
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,
Armenians
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, and
Levantines
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. Those unable to pay had to work off their debt in
labor camps in Aşkale. Five thousand were sent to the
Aşkale labor camp Aşkale Labor Camp is a labor camp established in Aşkale for taxpayers who do not fully and timely pay the extraordinary wealth tax enacted with the 'Varlık vergisi' in Turkey, dated 11 November 1942 and numbered 4305.
With the law enacted in N ...
. The law was repealed on 15 March 1944, and minority citizens who were at the labour camps were sent back to their homes.
["Minority citizens still in the camps were sent back to their homes."]
Neighbourhoods
* Abdalcık
* Akören
* Altıntaş
* Bağırsak
* Ballıtaş
* Bozburun
* Büyükgeçit
* Çatalbayır
* Çatören
* Çayköy
* Çiftlik
* Dağyurdu
* Dallı
* Demirkıran
* Dereköy
* Düzyurt
* Eyüpoğlu
* Gökçebük
* Gölören
* Güllüdere
*
Gümüşseren
* Güneyçam
* Gürkaynak
* Hacıbekir
* Hacıhamza
* Hacımahmut
* Hatuncuk
* Haydarhacı
* Kapıkale
* Karahasan
* Karasu
* Kavurmaçukuru
* Koçbaba
* Koşapınar
* Kurtmahmut
* Küçükgeçit
* Küçükova
* Kükürtlü
* Merdivenköy
* Mezrea
* Musadanışman
* Ocaklı
* Ovacık
* Özler
* Pırnakapan
* Saptıran
* Sarıbaba
*
Sazlı
* Taşağıl
* Taşlıçayır
* Tecer
* Tepsicik
* Tokça
* Topalçavuş
* Tosunlu
* Tozluca
* Turaç
* Yaylaköy
* Yaylayolu
* Yaylımlı
* Yumruveren
References
Populated places in Erzurum Province
Districts of Erzurum Province
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