Aşkale
Template:Expand Turkish Template:Infobox Turkey place Aşkale is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey.[1] Its area is 1,507 km2,[2] and its population is 21,494 (2022).[3] The mayor is Şenor Polat (AKP).
The majority of the district is populated by Turks and a small minority by Kurds. There is also a presence of Meskhetian Turks and Karapapakhs.[4]
Kandilli Ski Resort, which hosts cross-country skiing and biathlon competitions at some international winter sports events, is situated in Aşkale.
Labour camps for non-Muslims
In 1942, the Varlık Vergisi (Script error: No such module "IPA"., "wealth tax" or "capital tax") was imposed on the minority non-Muslim citizens of Turkey (mainly Jews, Greeks, Armenians, and Levantines.[5] Those unable to pay had to work off their debt in labor camps in Aşkale. Five thousand were sent to the Aşkale labor camp.[6] The law was repealed on 15 March 1944,[7] and minority citizens who were at the labour camps were sent back to their homes.[8]
Composition
There are 75 neighbourhoods in Aşkale District:[9]
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- Abdalcık
- Akören
- Altıntaş
- Bahçelievler
- Ballıtaş
- Bozburun
- Büyükgeçit
- Cahitbayar
- Çarşı
- Çatalbayır
- Çatören
- Çayköy
- Çiftlik
- Dağyurdu
- Dallı
- Demirkıran
- Dereköy
- Düzyurt
- Emek
- Esentepe
- Eyüpoğlu
- Gökçebük
- Gölören
- Güllüdere
- Gümüşseren
- Güneyçam
- Gürkaynak
- Hacıbekir
- Hacıhamza
- Hacımahmut
- Halitpaşa
- Hatuncuk
- Haydarhacı
- İstasyon
- Kandilli
- Kapıkale
- Karahasan
- Karasu
- Kavurmaçukuru
- Kıbrıs
- Koçbaba
- Koşapınar
- Küçükgeçit
- Küçükova
- Kükürtlü
- Kurtmahmut
- Merdivenköy
- Meydan
- Mezrea
- Musadanışman
- Nahiye Gölören
- Ocaklı
- Ovacık
- Özler
- Pırnakapan
- Şafak
- Saptıran
- Sarıbaba
- Sazlı
- Taşağıl
- Taşlıçayır
- Tecer
- Tepsicik
- Tokça
- Topalçavuş
- Tosunlu
- Tozluca
- Turaç
- Yaylaköy
- Yaylayolu
- Yaylımlı
- Yeniköy Halitpaşa
- Yeşilova
- Yumruveren
References
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- ↑ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".: "Those mainly afflicted were the Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and, to some extent, foreign-passport Levantine families."
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."Out of 40,000 tax debtors, about 5,000 were sent to these camps, and all of these were members of non-Muslim communities."
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."The Wealth Tax was withdrawn in March 1944, under the pressure of criticism from Britain and the United States"
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."Minority citizens still in the camps were sent back to their homes."
- ↑ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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