LütfüSavaş (born 23 March 1965,Yayladağı) is a Turkish politician,doctor [1] and former mayor of Hatay Province of Turkey. [2]
Savaşwas born in the Dağdüzü village in the Yayladağı district of the province of Hatay. [3] He is of Turkmen origin and has Syrian Turkmen relatives in Syria. [4] He grew up in Antakya's Havuzlar neighborhood. In 1990,he graduated from the Medical School of Anadolu University in Eskişehir.
He took part in the establishment of Mustafa Kemal University's Medical School. He became an associate professor in 2007. Between 2006 and 2008,he was the advisor of the rector of Mustafa Kemal University. [1]
İskenderun,historically known as Alexandretta and Scanderoon,is a municipality and district of Hatay Province,Turkey. Its area is 247 km2,and its population is 251,682 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coast. Located on an alluvial plain,the city was heavily damaged by powerful earthquakes in February 2023 and subsequent aftershocks,floods and fires.
Antakya,modern form of Antioch,is a municipality and the capital district of Hatay Province,Turkey. Its area is 703 km2,and its population is 399,045 (2022). It is the capital of Hatay Province,the southernmost province of Turkey. The city is located in a well-watered and fertile valley on the Orontes River,about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Levantine Sea.
Hatay Province is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 5,524 km2,and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia,along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east,the Turkish province of Adana to the northwest,Osmaniye to the north,and Gaziantep to the northeast. It is partially in Çukurova,a large fertile plain along Cilicia. Its administrative capital is Antakya,making it one of the three Turkish provinces not named after its administrative capital or any settlement. The second-largest city is İskenderun. Sovereignty over most of the province remains disputed with neighbouring Syria,which claims that the province had a demographic Arab majority,and was separated from itself against the stipulations of the French Mandate of Syria in the years following Syria's occupation by France after World War I.
Hatay State,also known informally as the Republic of Hatay,was a transitional political entity that existed from 7 September 1938 to 29 June 1939,being located in the territory of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of the French Mandate of Syria. The state was transformed de facto into the Hatay Province of Turkey on 7 July 1939,de jure joining the country on 23 July 1939.
The one-party period of the Republic of Turkey began with the formal establishment of the country in 1923. The Republican People's Party (CHP) was the only party between 1923 and 1945,when the National Development Party was established. After winning the first multiparty elections in 1946 by a landslide,the Republican People's Party lost the majority to the Democratic Party in the 1950 elections. During the one-party period,President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk repeatedly requested that opposition parties be established to stand against the Republican People's Party in order to transition into multi-party democracy. Kâzım Karabekir established the Progressive Republican Party in 1924 but it was banned after its members' involvement in the 1925 Sheikh Said rebellion. In 1930 the Liberal Republican Party was established but then dissolved again by its founder. Despite Atatürk's efforts to establish a self-propagating multi-party system,this was only established after his death in 1938.
Reyhanlı is a municipality and district of Hatay Province,Turkey. Its area is 367 km2,and its population is 108,092 (2022). It is near the country's border with Syria.
Yayladağı,formerly Ordu,is a municipality and district of Hatay Province,Turkey. Its area is 445 km2,and its population is 36,803 (2022). It is on the border with Syria,51 km (32 mi) south of the city of Antakya.
Mehmet Aksoy is a Turkish sculptor. His sculptures often contain sensual figurative elements,but he is strongly rooted in a modernist sensibility with strong conceptual and abstract elements in his work. He works primarily in stone but also incorporates other material,fusing metal or differing stones in a single sculpture. He presently resides and works in a studio of his own dramatic design on the outskirts of Istanbul.
Vakıflı is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Samandağ,Hatay Province,Turkey. Its population is 103 (2022). It is the only remaining Armenian village in Turkey. Located on the slopes of Musa Dagh in the Samandağdistrict of Hatay Province,the village overlooks the Mediterranean Sea and is within eyesight of the Syrian border. It is home to a community of about 130 Turkish-Armenians. The local Western Armenian dialect is highly divergent and cannot be fully understood by other Western Armenians.
Syrian Turkmen are Syrian citizens of Turkish origin who mainly trace their roots to Anatolia. Turkish-speaking Syrian Turkmen make up the third largest ethnic group in the country,after the Arabs and Kurds respectively.
Mustafa Kemal University,abbreviated as MKU,is a public university established 1992 at Antakya,Hatay Province in southern Turkey. It is named after the founder of the Turkish Republic,Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Serinyol is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Antakya,Hatay Province,Turkey. Its population is 15,804 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation,it was a town (belde).
Karayılan is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İskenderun,Hatay Province,Turkey. Its population is 9,074 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation,it was a town (belde).
The border between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey is about 909 kilometres (565 mi) long,and runs from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the tripoint with Iraq in the east. It runs across Upper Mesopotamia for some 400 kilometres (250 mi),crossing the Euphrates and reaching as far as the Tigris. Much of the border follows the Southern Turkish stretch of the Baghdad Railway,roughly along the 37th parallel between the 37th and 42nd eastern meridians. In the west,it almost surrounds the Turkish Hatay Province,partly following the course of the Orontes River and reaching the Mediterranean coast at the foot of Jebel Aqra.
Abdurrahman Mustafa is a Syrian Turkmen politician who is the incumbent president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly,the umbrella organization of the Turkmen political movements in Syria,and the political leader of the Turkmen national movement of Syria. On 6 May 2018,he was elected as the head of the Syrian National Coalition.
Alparslan Çelik is a Turkish Islamist Nationalist. In 2014 he joined the Syrian Turkmen Brigades of the Free Syrian Army and fought against the Syrian Army. On 24 November,after Turkey shot down a Russian bomber jet,he allegedly killed the Russian pilot Oleg Peshkov. Çelik was detained in İzmir,Turkey on 31 March 2016. All charges against him were dropped on 9 May 2016.
al-Jamel,alternatively spelled Shamil,is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate,northern Syria. Situated on the Jarabulus Plain's wetlands towards river Euphrates,the village is located 4 km (2.5 mi) to the south of Jarabulus,and about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the border to the Turkish province of Gaziantep. It is inhabited by Turkmen of the Barak tribe.
Mazaalah is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate,north of Syria. Situated on the northern Manbij Plain,about halfway between Jarabulus and the lower course of Sajur River,the village is located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of river Euphrates and about 9 km (5.6 mi) south of the border to the Turkish province of Gaziantep.
D.825 is a north-to-south oriented state road in southern Turkey. The 334 km (208 mi) long road starts at the junction to D.815 in Kayseri Province,runs through the provinces Kahramanmaraş,Gaziantep,Hatay and ends at the YayladağıBorder Crossing to Syria in Hatay Province.
Rönesans Rezidans was a residential building in Ekinci,Antakya. It was the first luxury apartment in Hatay Province. On 6 February 2023,it was destroyed as a result of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.