Bahçeköy is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Düzce District Düzce District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of the Düzce Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Düzce.Düzce Province Düzce Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province in northwestern Turkey. The province is on the coastline of the Black Sea and is traversed by the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara. The primary town is Düzce, located in the center of t ...

in Turkey. Its population is 788 (2022). Mostly populated by

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

, the village is located near the Small Melen River and has a lot of

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, where most of the

cattle Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus '' Bos''. Mature female cattle are calle ...

s are brought to in the summer period. Most villagers and people from the nearby Paşakonağı and Yenitaşköprü have cattle farms. The village has a

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Villages in Düzce District Kurdish settlements in East Marmara region {{Düzce-geo-stub