Ayancık is a town in

Sinop Province Sinop Province (; , ''Sinopi'') is a province of Turkey, along the Black Sea. It is located between 41 and 42 degrees North latitude and between 34 and 35 degrees East longitude. Its area is 5,717 km2, equivalent to 0.73% of Turkey's tot ...

in the

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region of

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. It is the seat of

Ayancık District Ayancık District is a Districts of Turkey, district of the Sinop Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Ayancık.

.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. Its population is 13,277 (2022). The mayor is Hayrettin Kaya ( CHP).

History

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Ayancık was part of the Kastamonu Vilayet of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. Being the most ideal hilltop in Sinop, Ayancık was the site of a

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radar station from 1951 to 1992 during the

Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...

. The radar was finally shut down in 1999 due to its technological obsolescence, and many of the locals migrated to Germany due to unemployment.

References

External links

The City Guide of Ayancık
Populated places in Sinop Province Populated coastal places in Turkey District municipalities in Turkey Ayancık District {{Sinop-geo-stub