Batman, Turkey

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Location of Batman, Turkey, Turkey
Coordinates: 37°53′N 41°07′E / 37.883, 41.117
Country Flag of Turkey Turkey
Region Southeastern Anatolia
Province Batman
Area
 - Province 4,654 km² (1,796.9 sq mi)
Elevation 550 m (1,804 ft)
Population (2005)
 - Total 246,700
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 72x xx
Area code(s) 0488
Licence plate 72
Website: http://www.batman-bld.gov.tr/

Batman (short for Batı Raman Mountains), the provincial capital of Batman Province, Turkey, also known as Êlih or Iluh in Kurdish, is a city on the Batman River in the predominantly Kurdish[1][2] southeast of Turkey.

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The mayor of Batman is Hüseyin Kalkan, who is a member of the Democratic Society Party.

Batman Province is an important oil producing area, and Batman has Turkey's oldest refinery, established in 1955. A 494 km (307 mi) long pipeline transports crude oil from Batman to İskenderun. The railway track at nearby Kurtalan connects the city with Istanbul. There is also a regional airport near Batman.

Until the 1950s, Batman was a small village with a mostly Kurdish population. When oil companies moved in and the city's economy started to grow, population figures began to rise. Many Turkish workers and state officials settled in the city. Presently Batman has a high unemployment level.

According to the EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence, on March 30, 2006, a 3-year-old boy was shot and killed by Turkish Security forces during a police raid on a civilian house in Batman during a series of violent clashes in the Kurdish regions of Turkey.[3]

  1. ^ Turkey does not register ethnicity in census, and there are thus no verifiable official figures. See Kurdish people.
  2. ^ Distribution of Kurdish People – GlobalSecurity.org
  3. ^ EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence on khrp.org

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