Tutak, Turkey

Tutak (Armenian: Դութախ - Duthakh, Kurdish: Dûtax‎[3]), is a town and a district of Ağrı Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. 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. It covers an area of 1,562 km² and the altitude is 1,535 m. The population (2010) is 34,812, of which 7,170 live in the town of Tutak, and the majority in the surrounding countryside. The mayor is Fırat Öztürk (BDP).

Tutak
Tutak
Coordinates: 39°32′32″N 42°46′18″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceAğrı
Government
 • MayorFırat Öztürk (HDP)
 • KaymakamGürbüz Saltaş
Area
 • District1,543.98 km2 (596.13 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
7,184
 • District
34,222
 • District density22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Post code
04700
Websitewww.tutak.bel.tr

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.

See also
  • 2007 Ağrı earthquake
  • Yazidis in Turkey

References
  1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
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