Túrkeve is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of

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Geography

It covers an

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of .

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, the total population of Túrkeve was 9,008, of whom there were 87.8%

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and 2.4% Romani by ethnicity. 12.2% did not declare their ethnicity, excluding these people Hungarians made up 100% of the total population. In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared a minority one along with Hungarian. Túrkeve is one of the least religious town in Hungary, 56.7% of the population was irreligious, while 17.9% was Hungarian Reformed (

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) and 4.4%

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Travel

There used to be a railway (link to the Hungarian Wikipedia page) connecting Mezőtúr and Túrkeve, owned by

MÁV Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...

. However, due to low ridership, this was closed in the 1960s, and the track was removed thereafter. With the closure of the only rail line between Túrkeve and any other city, the other form of transport is through road, including a daily bus service. Túrkeve-Mezőtúr Railway

Politics

The current mayor of Túrkeve is Róbert Benedek Sallai (Independent). The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 9 members (1 Mayor and 8 Individual list MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:

Notable people from Túrkeve

* Alexander Finta (1881-1958), Hungarian-American artist *

Alexander Korda Sir Alexander Korda (; born Sándor László Kellner; hu, Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956)Zoltan Korda Zoltan Korda (June 3, 1895 – October 13, 1961) was a Hungarian-born motion picture screenwriter, director and producer. He made his first film in Hungary in 1918, and worked with his brother Alexander Korda on film-making there and in London ...

(1895-1961), Hungarian-American film director *

Vincent Korda Vincent Korda (22 June 1897 – 4 January 1979) was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain. Born in Túrkeve in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was the younger brother of Alexander and Zoltan Korda. He was n ...

(1897-1979), Hungarian-British art director

International relations

Túrkeve is twinned with:

References

External links

* in Hungarian Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Jasz-geo-stub