Mazidagi
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Mazıdağı is a district of Mardin Province
of Turkey
. Today the Kurdish people
form a majority in this district. The capital of the district was prior inhabited by the Assyrian/Syriac people with nomadic Kurdish tribes inhabited in its mountains. Christian migration or exile and Kurdish settlement from nomadic life style to urbanism led the city becoming a Kurdish inhabited and identyfing town. The population of the district is 28,000 while 12,000 of it lives in the city center.
Mazıdağı region is very rich in phosphat mines which can bring significant change to the region and Turkish economy. The district dominated by sunni Muslims of followers of sufi orders.
Many kurdish inhabitants moved to the provinces center such as Diyarbekir, Mardin and Batman due to poverty and civil war between PKK-Turkish armed forces. The municipality of towns elections won by Hasip Aktas a member of Democratic Society Party
with %57 of all votes in 2009 which reprassant kurds in Turkish political system and local administration.
Mardin Province
Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 744,606. The population was 835,173 in 2000. The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin...
of Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. Today the Kurdish people
Kurdish people
The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
form a majority in this district. The capital of the district was prior inhabited by the Assyrian/Syriac people with nomadic Kurdish tribes inhabited in its mountains. Christian migration or exile and Kurdish settlement from nomadic life style to urbanism led the city becoming a Kurdish inhabited and identyfing town. The population of the district is 28,000 while 12,000 of it lives in the city center.
Mazıdağı region is very rich in phosphat mines which can bring significant change to the region and Turkish economy. The district dominated by sunni Muslims of followers of sufi orders.
Many kurdish inhabitants moved to the provinces center such as Diyarbekir, Mardin and Batman due to poverty and civil war between PKK-Turkish armed forces. The municipality of towns elections won by Hasip Aktas a member of Democratic Society Party
Democratic Society Party
The Democratic Society Party was a Kurdish Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social democratic, and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was considered to be the successor of the Democratic People's Party...
with %57 of all votes in 2009 which reprassant kurds in Turkish political system and local administration.