Talk:Provinces of Turkey

message: Now that the guidelines have finally been changed, how much effort should be put into moving the province pages from "P"rovince to "p"rovince?  I see that Muğla province was done a month ago.
:--William Allen Simpson 15:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: --William Allen Simpson 17:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  diacriticals, lower case "p"rovince 

message: The consensus currently reflected in the language of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) is:
:Example: the country has "oblasts" and its government officially translates them as "area", "region", or "zone", then they should never be renamed "province" to conform to another country or some master schema.
:The testimony of locals and people familiar with the country should be considered above Google evidence....
Just trying to follow those guidelines.  (But then, I helped write them.)
:Forgot to mention that the dictionary translates il to both "province" and "county", and ilçe to "county".  That's why I wanted to be extra sure that "district" was the best official word for ilçe.
::--William Allen Simpson
Each district, ilçe, (including the central district) commands a specific area, each has boundaries, within the province. The area depends administratively to the district central (ilçe merkezi, not to confuse with merkez ilçe) where resides the appointed kaymakam, head official for that district, who is answerable to the governor. Central districts do not have kaymakams, they are administered by a vice-governor. 
All (central or not) district centers have municipalities (belediye), headed by an elected mayor, who administers a defined municipality area (usually matching, more or less, the urban zone) for defined municipal matters. A growing number of settlements, which are not district centers, have municipalities as well, usually because their population requires one. These are called belde. They haven't (yet) become district centers because there is one too close by, or due to some other reason. So, a belde has a mayor (responsible for its municipal zone), but not a kaymakam, and depend administratively on the district center within the boundaries of which it is situated. 
At the bottom end, there are villages, who have elected muhtars taking care specific administrative matters. Furthermore, each quarter (mahalle) of a district center and belde has a muhtar as well, also for specific administrative questions. The designation slightly differs (köy muhtarı for village muhtar, mahalle muhtarı for quarter muhtar) and also the tasks, which are similar but adapted to their locality. 
In some cases, a belde can be larger that the district center it depends, and a district center can be larger than the central district it depends, and many other district centers. One final note is the büyükşehir belediyesi, larger municipalities for megalopoles like İstanbul or İzmir, which have at their top an elected head mayor who oversee a number of municipalities and mayors. 
I think district is the term that fits best. I did also think of township, but district matches, in my opinion, better. --Cretanforever 09:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Administrative divisions 

message: 26 provinces of turkey are KURDISTAN. They have Kurdish population and are an undivided parts of KURDISTAN. The history has proven it, if you look at ethnic maps or map of Kurdistan, you will see that 29 provinces of Turket are parts of Kurdistan. The Northern Kurdistanian provinces (occupated by Turkey) are: KARS, IGDIR, AGRI, VAN (WAN), HAKKARI (COLEMÊERG), SIRNAK, SIIRT (SÊRT), BITLIS, MUS, ERZURUM, ERZINCAN, BINGÖL (CEWLIK), BATMAN, MARDIN, DIYARBAKIR (AMED), TUNCELI (DÊRSÎM), ELAZIG (ELIH), MALATYA (MELETÎ), ADIYAMAN, SANLIURFA (RIHA), GAZIANTEP (ENTAP), KILIS, HATAY, OSMANIYE, KAHRAMANMARAS (MERES) anD SIVAS (SÊWAS) - THEY ALL ARE KURDIAN, PARTS OF KURDISTAN. Look at the histry book, ethnic maps and the map of Kurdistan - that the Kurds haven't done by themselves - you will see they are all KURDISTAN. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.141.25 (talk) 2007-04-29 11:59:32 (UTC)
:You are the same guy at the talk page of Sivas. We formed this country with blood, steel and self sacrifice. We defeated France, the symbol of the imperialist west, at Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş and at Şanlıurfa. All three cities were given the honour to carry the titles of "Ghazi", "Hero" and "Glorious" in front of their names. France thought that Şırnak would surrender immediately but the people of the city united against the invasion and forced the attackers to change their plans. Mustafa Kemal united the nation in Sivas which marked an important point at the Turkish War of Independence. The parliament of Hatay itself decided to join Turkey. We can find uncountable number of data to show how the people of Anatolia are united. All cities that you count are the free and glorious parts of the Republic of Turkey. Deliogul 19:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kurdistan 

message: I thought that Mersin was officially named as İçel and so would fit the pattern of alphabetical province names for the licence plate codes until Zonguldak? 92.9.132.114 (talk) 18:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mersin 

message: It'd be nice to have the province name meanings in English. Can anyone help? Thanks, --Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:37, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  etymologies? 

message: Hello, I am aware of a PDF file on a Turkish government website, which appears to have area sizes different to the ones here, but I have no idea about the accuracy of the numbers used by both the government and Wikipedia, due to the lack of references.
Someone needs to dig deeper to verify which area values are true for both the provinces and districts, and if necessary, consolidate the sources for the area data for Turkey.
Best, --Minoa (talk) 20:34, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues with area data