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Municipality in Siirt, Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baykan (Kurdish: Hawêl)[1] is a municipality in the Baykan District of the Siirt Province in Turkey.[2] It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 5,544 in 2021.[3][4]
Baykan is divided into the neighborhoods of Cefan, Havel, İnönü, Karşıyaka and Yenidoğan.[2]
In the local elections in March 2019 Ramazan Sarsılmaz from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected mayor.[5] Mehmet Tunç was appointed Kaymakam in September 2018.[6] On 15 May 2020, Sarsılmaz was dismissed from his post, and Mehmet Tunç was appointed as the trustee of the municipality.[7]
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