Artuklu, Mardin

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Artuklu
İlçe (district)
Artuklu Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°19′N 40°43′E / 37.317°N 40.717°E / 37.317; 40.717Coordinates: 37°19′N 40°43′E / 37.317°N 40.717°E / 37.317; 40.717
Country	Turkey
Province	Mardin Province
Government
• Mayor	Abdulkadir Tutaşı (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Hacı Hasan Gökpinar
Elevation	940 m (3,085 ft)
Population  (2012)
• Urban	86,984
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	47000
Area code(s)	0482
Licence plate	47

Artuklu is a district and second level municipality in Mardin Province, Turkey. According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law (Law No. 6360), all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750000 will become metropolitan municipalities and the districts within the metropolitan municipalities will be second-level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts.^[1] In March 2019, Abdulkadir Tutaşı was elected mayor.^[2] Since August 2019, Hacı Hasan Gökpinar is the Kaymakam.^[3]

Artuklu was the name of a Turkmen dynasty which ruled in and around Mardin in the 14th century.

Rural area[]

There were three towns and 64 villages in Artuklu rural area.^[4] Now their official status became "neighborhood of Artuklu".

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