Batman, Turkey

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Batman, Turkey
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Location in Turkey
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RegionSoutheastern Anatolia Region, Turkey
ProvinceBatman Province
Population246,700 (2005)[]
Area4,654 km
Elevation550 m
Coordinates| Coordinates:
Postal code72x xx
Area code0488
Licence plate code72
MayorHuseyin Kalkan (Democratic Society Party)
Websitehttp://www.batman-bld.gov.tr/


Batman (short for Batı Raman Mountains), the provincial capital of Batman Province, Turkey, also known as Êlih or Iluh in Kurdish, is a city on the Batman River in the predominantly Kurdish[1][2] southeast of Turkey.

Government

The mayor of Batman is Hüseyin Kalkan, who is a member of the Democratic Society Party.

Economy

Batman Province is an important oil producing area, and Batman has Turkey's oldest refinery, established in 1955. A 494 km long pipeline transports crude oil from Batman to İskenderun. The railway track at nearby Kurtalan connects the city with Istanbul. There is also a regional airport near Batman.

History and demographics

Until the 1950s, Batman was a small village with a mostly Kurdish population. When oil companies moved in and the city's economy started to grow, population figures began to rise. Many Turkish workers and state officials settled in the city. Presently Batman has a high unemployment level.

Recent clashes

According to the EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence, on March 30, 2006, a 3-year-old boy was shot and killed by Turkish Security forces during a police raid on a civilian house in Batman during a series of violent clashes in the Kurdish regions of Turkey.[3]

Notes and references

1. ^ Turkey does not register ethnicity in census, and there are thus no verifiable official figures. See Kurdish people.
2. ^ Distribution of Kurdish People – GlobalSecurity.org
3. ^ EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence on khrp.org

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Southeastern Anatolia Region (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi)

Provinces

  • Adıyaman Province
  • Batman Province
  • Diyarbakır Province
  • Gaziantep Province
  • Kilis Province
  • Mardin Province
  • Şanlıurfa Province

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Batman (for Bati Raman) (Kurdish: Êlih) is a Turkish province in the predominantly Kurdish[1][2] southeast of Anatolia, with a population of slightly larger than 500,000. The Batman River flows though the area.
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This is a list of cities in Turkey by population.

Included are cities that are provincial capitals or have a population of at least 20,000.

Cities over 100 thousand


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Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. The term Surface area is the summation of the areas of the exposed sides of an object.

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Units for measuring surface area include:
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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Postal codes in Turkey are usually found generally start with the two digit license plate code followed by three digits to specify the location within the province.

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Country Code: 90

0 is the long distance dialing prefix while the international dialing prefix is 00.

Calling a cell phone from out side of Turkey is the same except the three digit numbers are replaced with the ones of the companies.
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Turkish car number plates are license plates found on Turkish vehicles.

Appearance

The license plate is rectangular in shape and made of aluminum. On the left, there is the country code "TR" in a 4x10cm blue bar like in EU countries.
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Democratic Society Party (Turkish: Demokratik Toplum Partisi - DTP) is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey, considered as the successor to the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP).
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Batman (for Bati Raman) (Kurdish: Êlih) is a Turkish province in the predominantly Kurdish[1][2] southeast of Anatolia, with a population of slightly larger than 500,000. The Batman River flows though the area.
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Motto
Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh
Peace at Home, Peace in the World
Anthem
İstiklâl Marşı
The Anthem of Independence
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Kurdish}}} 
Writing system: Kurdish alphabet (modified Arabic alphabet in Iraq and Iran, modified Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria, modified Cyrillic in the former USSR) 
Official status
Official language of: Iraq
Kurdish Autonomous Region
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The Batman River is a tributary of the Dicle River(Tigris) in southeast Turkey. It passes near the city Batman. The old Malabadi Bridge crosses this river, north of the city of Batman.

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Motto
Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh
Peace at Home, Peace in the World
Anthem
İstiklâl Marşı
The Anthem of Independence
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Hüseyin Kalkan is mayor of the city of Batman in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey, and a member of the Democratic Society Party. He gained international notoriety after it was revealed that he had filed a lawsuit against D.C.
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Democratic Society Party (Turkish: Demokratik Toplum Partisi - DTP) is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey, considered as the successor to the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP).
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Petroleum (Latin Petroleum derived from Greek πέτρα (Latin petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil
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Year 1955 (MCMLV
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Kurtalan is a district of Siirt Province of Turkey.

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Criteria i, ii, iii, iv
Reference 356
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1985  (9th Session)
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Turks (Turkish: Türkler), or the Turkish people (Türk Halkı), are a nation (Millet) defined more by a sense of sharing a common Turkish culture and having a Turkish mother tongue by citizenship, religion or by being subjects to any particular
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The Kurdish Human Rights Project is the only non-partisan human rights organisation consistently working in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere. It is a registered charity, founded and based in London in 1992, and its supporters include Kurds and
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