Tutak,_Turkey

Tutak, Turkey

Tutak, Turkey

Municipality in Ağrı, Turkey

Tutak (Kurdish: Dûtax[2]), is a town in Ağrı Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Tutak District.[3] Its population is 7,059 (2021).[1] It is located on a small plain surrounded by high mountains and watered by the Murat River, on the road from the city of Ağrı to the district of Patnos. Its altitude is 1,535 m. The mayor is Bülent Duru (AKP).

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Tutak is a small town providing schools, a hospital and other basic amenities to this impoverished rural district. The main source of income in the district is grazing livestock on the mountainside.

Winters are long and hard with a lot of snow, summers are hot and dry.

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References

  1. [1]
    "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  2. [2]
    Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  3. [3]
    İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.


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