Mazıdağı ( ku, Şemrex) is a municipality and
district
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of
Mardin Province
Mardin Province ( tr, Mardin ili; ku, Parêzgeha Mêrdînê; ar, محافظة ماردين) is a province of Turkey with a population of 809,719 in 2017, slightly down from the population of 835,173 in 2000. Kurds form the majority of the popu ...
,
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 850 km
2, and its population is 36,442 (2022).
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 Ira ...
of the Dimilî tribe.
Politics
In the
local elections of 2009 Hasip Aktas was elected as mayor as a member of the
Democratic Society Party
The Democratic Society Party ( tr, Demokratik Toplum Partisi, DTP, Kurdish: ''Partiya Civaka Demokratîk'', PCD) was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social-democratic and had observer status in the So ...
(DTP) with 57% of all votes. In the local elections of 2014, Necia Yıldırım from the DTP became Mayor. In the
municipal elections of 2019, Nalan Özaydın from the
Peoples' Democratic Party was elected as Mayor of Mazıdağı. On the 15 November 2019 she was detained over alleged terror links. The next day she was dismissed.
Resources
Mazıdağı region is very rich in phosphate mines.
Composition
There are 53
neighbourhoods
A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; American and British English spelling differences, see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community ...
in Mazıdağı District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
* Aksu ()
* Arıköy ()
* Arısu ()
* Aşağıocak ()
* Atalar ()
* Atlıca ()
* Aykut ()
* Bahçecik ()
* Balpınar ()
* Bilge
The bilge of a ship or boat is the part of the hull that would rest on the ground if the vessel were unsupported by water. The "turn of the bilge" is the transition from the bottom of a hull to the sides of a hull.
Internally, the bilges (usu ...
()
* Çankaya ()
* Çayönü
Çayönü Tepesi is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey which prospered from circa 8,630 to 6,800 BC. It is located forty kilometres north-west of Diyarbakır, at the foot of the Taurus mountains. It lies near the Boğazçay, a trib ...
()
* Derecik ()
* Dikyamaç ()
* Duraklı ()
* Ekinciler ()
* Enginköy ()
* Erdalı ()
* Evciler
Evciler is a town of Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey, on a plain in the mountains behind the Aegean coast, 132 km from the city of Afyon along the road to Denizli. It is the seat of Evciler District. ()
* Gümüşpınar ()
* Gümüşyuva ()
* Gündoğan
* Gürgöze ()
* İkisu ()
* Işıkyaka ()
* Karaalanı ()
* Karataş
Karataş ( gr, Μέγαρσος, Mègarsos) is a small city and a district in Adana Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 47 km from the city of Adana, between the rivers of Seyhan and Ceyhan, the Pyramos of Antiquity. The city of K ...
()
* Karşıyaka
* Kayalar
* Kebapçı ()
* Kemerli ()
* Kışlak ()
* Kocakent ()
* Konur ()
* Meşeli ()
* Ömürlü ()
* Ortaklı ()
* Poyraz
* Sağmal ()
* Sakızlı ()
* Şanlı ()
* Şenyuva ()
* Tanrıyolu ()
* Tarlacık ()
* Ulutaş ()
* Ürünlü ()
* Yağmur ()
* Yalınağaç ()
* Yeşilköy
(; meaning "Green Village"; prior to 1926, San Stefano or Santo Stefano el, Άγιος Στέφανος, Ágios Stéfanos, tr, Ayastefanos) is an affluent neighbourhood ( tr, mahalle) in the district of Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey, on the M ...
()
* Yetkinler ()
* Yücebağ ()
* Yukarıkonak ()
* Yukarıocak ()
References
External links
Mazıdağı website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazidagi
Populated places in Mardin Province
Districts of Mardin Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province