Kurtalan ( ku, Misircê) is a municipality in the

Kurtalan District Kurtalan District is a district of Siirt Province in Turkey. The town of Kurtalan is the seat and the district had a population of 60,592 in 2021. The district is populated by Kurds. The current District Governor is Ihsan Emre Aydin. Settlem ...

Siirt Province Siirt Province, ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Sêrtê) is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast. The province borders Bitlis to the north, Batman to the west, Mardin to the southwest, Şırnak to the south, and Van to the east. It has an ar ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The municipality is populated by

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...

of the Pencenarî tribe and had a population of 36,273 in 2021.

Government

In the local elections of 2019 Baran Akgül was elected as Mayor. The current

District Governor A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

is Ihsan Emre Aydin.

Transport

Kurtalan railway station Kurtalan railway station ( tr, Kurtalan Garı) is the easternmost railway station in Siirt Province, Turkey. It is also the eastern terminus of the Southern Kurtalan Express which connects Ankara and Kurtalan. Kurtalan station was opened in 1944 ...

is the eastern terminus of the Southern Kurtalan Express between Ankara and Kurtalan operated by ''

TCDD Taşımacılık TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş. ( en, TCDD Transport, reporting mark TCDDT) is a government-owned railway company responsible for the operations of most passenger and freight rail in Turkey. The company was formed on 14 June 2016, splitting off from t ...

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Notable People

* Baran Akgül - Mayor and Politician

References

Populated places in Siirt Province Kurdish settlements in Siirt Province {{Siirt-geo-stub