(Karaburun district of İzmir Province)
(İnegöl district of Bursa Province)
A village (Turkish: köy, karye in the Ottoman era) is the second smallest settlement unit in Turkey.
The 51 regular provinces of Turkey and 30 province-level metropolitan municipalities are divided into districts.
A 2013 reform converted all 16,803 villages in the metropolitan municipalities, into neighborhoods (Turkish: mahalle) of the districts.[1][2]
Remaining villages are in the rural areas of the districts in regular provinces, and have about 8.7% of the country's population.[3] Each village or neighborhood elects a muhtar. Some more populous villages have been incorporated as towns (Turkish: belde), but in the others, the muhtar is responsible for all village services.
As of 2023, there are 18,277 villages and 32,261 neighbourhoods in Turkey.[4]
- ^ Official gazette (in Turkish)
- ^ "Atlas essay Yusuf Yavuz" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2015-03-16. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ^ Statistical Institute (in Turkish)
- ^ Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory, Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 19 December 2022.