Mazıdağı () 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, municip ...
of
Mardin Province
Mardin Province (; ; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in Turkey. Its area is 8,780 km2, and its population is 870,374 (2022). The largest city in the province is Kızıltepe, while the capital Mardin is the second largest ci ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 850 km
2, and its population is 36,442 (2022).
The town is 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 ...
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 (, 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 Socialist International. It was c ...
(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 (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
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 (us ...
()
* Çankaya ()
* Çayönü
Çayönü Tepesi is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey which prospered from circa 8,630 to 6,800 BC. It is located in Diyarbakır Province forty kilometres north-west of Diyarbakır, at the foot of the Taurus mountains. It lies ne ...
()
* Derecik ()
* Dikyamaç ()
* Duraklı ()
* Ekinciler ()
* Enginköy ()
* Erdalı ()
* Evciler ()
* Gümüşpınar ()
* Gümüşyuva ()
* Gündoğan
* Gürgöze ()
* Ä°kisu ()
* Işıkyaka ()
* Karaalanı ()
* KarataÅŸ
KarataÅŸ (Turkish language, Turkish for ''black stone'') is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 862 km2, and its population is 23,499 (2022). The town itself has 10,293 inhabitants. It is o ...
()
* Karşıyaka
* Kayalar
* Kebapçı ()
* Kemerli ()
* Kışlak ()
* Kocakent ()
* Konur ()
* MeÅŸeli ()
* Ömürlü ()
* Ortaklı ()
* Poyraz
* SaÄŸmal ()
* Sakızlı ()
* Şanlı ()
* Åženyuva ()
* Tanrıyolu ()
* Tarlacık ()
* UlutaÅŸ ()
* Ürünlü ()
* YaÄŸmur ()
* Yalınağaç ()
* Yeşilköy
(; meaning "Green Village"; prior to 1926, San Stefano or Santo Stefano , ) is an affluent neighbourhood () in the municipality and district of Bakırköy, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 25,039 (2022). on the Marmara Sea about ...
()
* 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