Kâhta
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Turkey place Kâhta (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx,[1] Template:Langx[2]) is a city in Adıyaman Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Kâhta District.[3] Its population is 86,232 (2021).[4] The city is populated by Kurds from the Reşwan tribe.[5][6]
Neighborhoods
The town is divided into the neighborhoods of Atatürk, Bağlar, Bayraktar, Cami, Cumhuriyet, Çobanlı, Fatih, Fırat, Gazi, Girne, Hürriyet, Karşıyaka, Menderes, Şeyhbaba, Turanlı, Turgut Özal, Yavuz Selim and Yeni.[3]
Climate
Kâhta has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa),[7] with pronounced seasons. Summers are very hot and dry, and winters are cool and wet.
Notable people
- Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat (1943-2019), Kurdish politician who was one of the founders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001
- Ahmet Aydın (*1971), Kurdish Politician
- Mehmet Yavuz (1973-2019), Kurdish politician and teacher in Turkey who led the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party from May 2018 until 7 October 2018
References
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- ↑ Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 264.
- ↑ a b İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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