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	Encyclopedia: Sivas Province
		Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmaras to the south, Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan to the east, Giresun to the northeast, and Ordu to the north.
		Ağrı; is a border province in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran to the east, Kars to the North, Erzurum to the Northeast, Mus and Bitlis to the Southeast, Van to the south, and Igdir to the northeast.
		Bilecik is a province in midwest Turkey, neighboring Bursa to the east, Kocaeli and Sakarya to the north, Bolu to the west, Eskişehir to the southeast and Kütahya to the south, spanning an area of 4,307 km2.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sivas-Province (2102 words)

	Hakkari
		It is the capital of Hakkari province with 240,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		The base for Hakkari's economy is scarce, due to the extreme geographic conditions of its region.
		Hakkari lies 70 km from the border to Iraq and 150 km from Iran.
	www.i-cias.com /e.o/hakkari.htm (151 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hatay Province
		Hatay is a province of southern Turkey, situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and Syria to the south and east.
		The province has an area of 5,545 km² (2,141 mi²) and a population of 1,002,252 in the 1990 census.
		The election for the parliamentary seats was monitored by the Turkish Army and many Turks from the provinces Adana and Gaziantep were registered as voters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hatay-Province (376 words)

	Assyrians - the Forgotten People, Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some Assyrian tribesmen, of the Hakkari, now in Mosul, were unhappy with the way the British were treating the Assyrians in general, and decided to return home after the 1918 Armistice in defiance of the British orders.
		Iraq was awarded Mosul Province (which should have been reserved for the Assyrians), and Turkey gained two and a half decades of supply of oil from the rich oil fields of Iraq.
		Separating the ejected ‘Nestorian’ Assyrians of Urmia (Iran) and Hakkari (Turkey) from the ‘Chaldean’ Assyrians of Mesopotamia (northern Iraq) and from the (Syriani) Assyrians of Syria, the British Government described the displaced Assyrians as a bunch of inconsequential primitive Nestorian peasants.
	www.theplanet.net.au /~fpi/ATFP2.html (2704 words)

	metko.homedecoration.sitemynet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hakkari, where natural beauties are majestically presented, is a border province that attract people's interest, especially by its Mountain Sports Centres, valley life, tapestry, walnuts and honey.
		In Hakkari, where the economy relies mostly on animal raising, the wool obtained fromsheep have been used in tapestry, produced by the expertise of women for many centuries.The carpets, each reflecting the cultural potential accumulated through centuries, are being produced traditional craftsmanship products, whit their authentic characteristics untuoched.
		The carpets, a part of Turkish culture and art, composed of the region's peculiar figures and patterns and produced using root paint and pure wool, carrying the characteristic patterns and figures of the Hakkari province depicting the fine, graceful and impressive understanding of art, in the county and abroad.
	metko.homedecoration.sitemynet.com /decoration/id6.htm (147 words)

	The Vilayet of Van - A Passage From History - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		In 1875, however, when this cumbersome province was broken up, the sanjaks of Van and Hakkari became separate vilayets, only to be joined together once again into a greater vilayet of Van in 1888.
		This majority was lost in the vilayet, however—and deliberately so—by the merging of Van with Hakkari, whose population was overwhelmingly Kurdish mixed with minorities of Yezidis and Aisoris of the Nestorian faith, a small number of whom, under the name Chaldeans, had become Roman Catholics.
		of the land in the province was arable, 14,316 / 5527 barren mountains, 6,350/2,452 forested mountains; 20 percent consisted of swamp land, and the last 5454/2106 of lakes.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js04/040123history.html (767 words)

	eskisehir province - Las Tunas lastunas.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is the capital of Eskisehir Province with 710,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		Social and economic development of provinces (1996)Â”, as shown in table 6, Eskisehir was the 6th developed province among 76 provinces.
		At the first kiss of the sun's rays, a rock monument in Seyitgazi township of Eskisehir province whispers the name of the king for which it was erected: 'Midas...' Inscribed on the rock are...
	www.lastunas.info /eskisehir-province (540 words)

	Izmir Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Izmir (Turkish spelling İzmir) is a province of Turkey in the western Anatolia on the Aegean coast.
		Neighbouring provinces are Balıkesir on the north, Manisa on the east, and Aydın on the south.
		The main rivers of the province are Küçük Menderes Nehri, Koca Çay (with Güzelhisar dam), and Bakır Çay.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Izmir_Province (214 words)

	Guantanamo Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Guantánamo is one of the provinces of Cuba.
		The Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa mountains rise in the Guantánamo province, dividing the province in both climate and landscape.
		The northern coast, battered by prevailing winds, is the wettest part of the country, while the south, sheltered and dry, is the hottest.
	guantanamo-province.wikiverse.org (228 words)

	PKK Claims Suicide Attack on Governor
		Hakkari province governor Nihat Canpolat was injured in the attack, along with a paramilitary police chief and a bodyguard.
		The attack occurred in the predominantly Kurdish Southeastern region, in the town of Yuksekova, near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran.
		The Kurdish DEM news agency reported that, "The attack on Hakkari governor Nihat Canpolat was carried out by an ARGK guerrilla named Turab Mohemmedi who is registered in Orumiyeh city." Orumiyeh is across the border in Iran, not far from where the attack took place.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=250 (369 words)

	Turks.US Daily News: 11 Kurdish rebels killed in fighting in Turkey
		About 4,000 Turkish troops were chasing the guerrillas near the city of Hakkari, where the borders of Iraq, Iran and Turkey meet, CNN-Turk television reported.
		Violence in the mainly Kurdish southeast has been on the rise since fighters from the former Kurdistan Workers Party, now known as Kongra-Gel, called off a five-year unilateral cease-fire on June 1, threatening to rekindle a separatist conflict that killed more than 30,000 people, mostly Kurds, in the 1980s and 1990s.
		Two soldiers were also killed in clashes in southeastern Hakkari Province, said the governor of the province, Erdogan Gurbuz.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20040901211058406&mode=print (738 words)

	Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
		The province is surrounded by mountain ranges in the south and in the north.
		In the Bingol Mountains located to the north of the province, there are countless glacier lakes formed by the melting of glaciers, which is an interesting natural event.
		In the surroundings of Bingol, a province rich in natural and historical beauties, the Kigi Citadel, the Kupik and Ahpik Caves, remaining from prehistoric ages and the Harabe- koy remains are worth seeing.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/sights/east.htm (2046 words)

	Operations Against the Kurds '98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 13 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in two separate clashes in the provinces of Hakkari, near on Iraqi and Iranian borders, and Diyarbakir, the southeast's regional governorship said in a statement.
		A Turkish official in the province of Ordu was killed last week and four villagers died in Sivas province Sunday in other attacks attributed to the PKK outside its normal region of activity.
		The clashes in the provinces of Diyarbakir, Tunceli, Batman and Mardin came days after the rebels killed 17 members of Turkish security forces in Hakkari province in the bloodiest attack by the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) on the armed forces in several years.
	turkeyhumanrights.fw.bz /kurds/Operations98.htm (8316 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Into Hakkari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was empty country: a maze of hills and shallow valleys, with shepherds and their flocks beside the watercourses and a village perhaps every twenty miles.
		Antedating the vast Crusader strongholds of Syria, it is almost as impressive and assumed its present form under the admirable Seljuk builders of the 11th century.
		These shepherds, a branch of the Hakkari tribe after whom the province is named, arrived in the 14th century.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196804/into.hakkari.htm (1625 words)

	Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
		Erzincan, the principal city of its province, lies 688 km east of Ankara on a fertile plain.
		Ishak Paşa, Ottoman governor of the province, constructed the palace in the 17th century with a mixture of architectural styles.
		The road to remote Hakkari, 203 km southeast of Van, takes you through some of Turkey's most magnificent scenery: the Cilo-Sat Mountains and the Zap Valley.
	www.adiyamanli.org /eastern_anatolia_region.htm (2695 words)

	Community Introduction
		With its soaring peaks and murmuring gorges, glaciers on the edge of the desert, and rich flora and fauna, it is no wonder that mountaineers have circulated among it ever since the visit of a German expedition in 1935.
		With a population of 240,000 inhabitants living in the capital of Hakkari's province, the base of its economy is scarce, due to the extreme geographic conditions of its region.
		The population of Hakkari is mainly made up of Kurds who speak Kurdish, a language of the western Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages.
	bss.sfsu.edu /nfwatts/PLSI250Hakkari.htm (1827 words)

	Reuters: It said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas shot the helicopter down on Friday as it was descending ...
		Reuters: It said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas shot the helicopter down on Friday as it was descending over mountains in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq and Iran.
		It said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas shot the helicopter down on Friday as it was descending over mountains in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq and Iran.
		One officer was among the dead, the news agency said in a written statement based on reports from the National Liberation Army of Kurdistan (ARGK), the military wing of the PKK.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:21690364&refid=holomed_1 (206 words)

	Editing Hakkari Province - Edit this page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[[Image:Hakkari Turkey Provinces locator.gifthumbshows the Location of the Province Hakkari]] '''Hakkari''' is a [[Provinces of Turkeyprovince]] in southernmost [[Turkey]], located at the juncture of [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]].
		Its adjacent provinces are [[Sirnak ProvinceSirnak]] to the west and [[Van ProvinceVan]] to the north.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/?title=Hakkari_Province&action=edit (173 words)

	Two Children and a Man Killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was the most recent of frequent explosions in Hakkari, an area heavily polluted by anti-personnel landmines and other unexploded ordinances during the conflict between PKK guerrillas and Turkish security forces.
		An explosion killed two children and a man and wounded three more people on October 5, 2004 in what is known as "the Serhatkale Camp" near the Gelishen village of the Semdinli district of the Hakkari province.
		The wounded were taken to the Hakkari State Hospital and are under treatment.
	www.bianet.org /2005/01/01_eng/news49409.htm (448 words)

	Displaced and Disregarded
		In July 2002, the displaced inhabitants of Bağarası, near Derik in Mardin province, who had repeatedly applied to return home, reported that the Derik local governor had told them that they would be permitted to return if they signed documents stating that the PKK had burned their village.
		After a gendarme was killed by a landmine in the Beytuşşebap district of Şırnak province in July 2001, gendarmes drove out the inhabitants of the villages of Asat and Ortaklı that were near the scene of the explosion.
		Inhabitants of eleven villages in the Berwar district of Hakkari, evacuated in 1996, applied to the office of the Van provincial governor asking that their villages be cleared of mines and that they be given assistance to return.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2002/turkey/Turkey1002-10.htm (7233 words)

	Geographical Regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Four seasons can be experienced at the same time in Hakkari, which is the most mountainous province in Turkey.
		Sanliurfa and Mardin Provinces, with the exception of some very small sections, are within the region.
		Some sections of the other provinces are either in the Eastern Anatolia or Mediterranean Regions.
	www.byegm.gov.tr /YAYINLARIMIZ/kitaplar/isteturkiye/english/geograph97.htm (482 words)

	DigeratiCafe: Bolu Province :Online Reference Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bolu is a province in north western Turkey, around the ancient city of Bolu.
		Yedigoller National Park (Seven Lakes) is located in Bolu province.
		The road to Yedigoller is very bad and has an unfortunate reputation in Turkey as being a centre for road accidents especially in winter.
	www.digeraticafe.com /reference/Bolu_Province (183 words)

	IL FATTORE K (COME KURDISTAN) in
		Two Turkish soldiers have also been killed in the fighting in southeastern Hakkari province, officials said.
		Erdogan Gurbuz of Hakkari province said two soldiers and 11 rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, now known as KONGRA-GEL, were killed in the clashes that began Saturday.
		The troops, backed by U.S. made helicopters, were chasing the guerrillas near the city of Hakkari, where the borders of Iraq, Iran and Turkey meet.
	www.internimantegazza.it /message_37301.asp (387 words)

	Turkey
		In the provinces under emergency rule, the regional state of emergency governor empowers security authorities to search without a warrant residences or the premises of political parties, businesses, associations, or other organizations.
		Seven provinces remain under "adjacent province" status, which authorizes the Jandarma to retain security responsibility for municipalities as well as rural areas, and grants the provincial governor several extraordinary powers.
		In contrast to the national average of 45 children per classroom, there are typically 60 to 90 children per classroom in eastern and southeastern provinces and as many as 80 to 100 in Diyarbakir (most schools in the southeast employ a shift schedule for classes to accommodate the large numbers).
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/index.cfm?docid=844 (18514 words)

	Cyprus :: Obstacles to Return: Paramilitary village guards in Turkey
		However, in another case in September in the same province, the authorities did evacuate village guards from nearby Sarı village in order to secure the return of the original inhabitants, members of the Assyrian minority.
		In April former residents of Uluköy, near Kiziltepe, in Mardin province, who had been forced out of their homes in 1993 because they refused to join the village guards, were given permission to return to their village.
		In the same month, villagers returning to Altınsu village, near Şemdinli, in Hakkari province, reported that the local gendarmerie commander held a meeting at which he demanded that returning villagers become village guards.
	www.cyprus-forum.com /cyprus999.html (1893 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Mountaineering in Turkey
		The Cilo-Sat mountains, within the southeastern Hakkari province are the eastern extension of the Toros (Taurus) mountain chain which stretches from west to east along Turkey's southern boundaries.
		The long range is situated in the provinces of Niðde and Adana and rises between Lake Ecemis and the Zamantý river ( maps).
		Continuing the line of summits in a southeastern direction, the Bolkar Mountains are bounded by the River Goksu to the west and the River Pozanti to the east.
	www.atamanhotel.com /mountaineering.html (2884 words)

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