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Kayapınar, Diyarbakır
District and municipality in Diyarbakır, Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kayapınar is municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.[2] Its area is 480 km2,[3] and its population is 419,513 (2022).[1] It covers the northwestern part of the city of Diyarbakır and the adjacent countryside.[4][5] The district Kayapınar was created in 2008 from part of the central district (Merkez) of Diyarbakır.[6][7]
In the local elections of 31 March 2019, Keziban Yılmaz was elected Mayor with 66.35% of the votes.[8] On the 21 October 2019, he was detained due to an investigation concerning propaganda for a terror organization and being a member of a terror organization.[9]
During the Mayorship of Zülküf Karatekin, there was an unnamed park in the town.[10] The Kayapinar Park was named Rosna by the Municipality in 2008, but this name was rejected by the Governorship of Kayapinar.[10] An other park was the Medya Park in which a pool allegedly in the shape of a Kurdistan was located.[10] Karatekin was investigated for being involved in the construction of the pool in 2007.[11] The Ceylan Önkol park was inaugurated in 2010 to which inauguration Karatekin sent a letter from prison.[10]
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Composition
There are 34 neighbourhoods in Kayapınar District:[12]
- Avcısuyu
- Barış
- Baykara
- Beneklitaş
- Cankatran
- Çölgüzeli
- Cücük
- Cumhuriyet
- Diclekent
- Esentepe
- Fırat
- Gözalan
- Gözegöl
- Güleçoba
- Harmanardı
- Hatipoğlu
- Huzurevleri
- Kaldırım
- Karayakup
- Keklik
- Kırkpınar
- Medya
- Mezopotamya
- Petek
- Peyas
- Sağkulak
- Sultantepe
- Taban
- Talaytepe
- Tişo
- Tosunlu
- Uyandık
- Yeniözerli
- Yolboyu Pirinçlık
References
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