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Mazıdağı

District and municipality in Mardin, Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Mazıdağı (Kurdish: Şemrex[2]) is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey.[3] Its area is 850 km2,[4] and its population is 36,442 (2022).[1] The town is populated by Kurds of the Dimilî tribe.[5]

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Politics

In the local elections of 2009 Hasip Aktas was elected as mayor as a member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) with 57% of all votes. In the local elections of 2014, Necia Yıldırım from the DTP became Mayor.[6] In the municipal elections of 2019, Nalan Özaydın from the Peoples' Democratic Party was elected as Mayor of Mazıdağı.[7] On the 15 November 2019 she was detained over alleged terror links.[8] The next day she was dismissed.[9]

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Resources

Mazıdağı region is very rich in phosphate mines.[10]

Composition

There are 53 neighbourhoods in Mazıdağı District:[11]

References

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