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Kurtalan (District Municipality, Turkey)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 28 February 2025

Presentation of Kurtalan
District government
Municipalities
- Kurtalan
- Kayabağlar

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Presentation of Kurtalan

The municipality of Kurtalan (56,740 inhabitants in 2012, 30,087 in the town of Kurtalan; 81,736 ha) is located 40 km west of Siirt and 50 km east of Batman.

Ivan Sache, 16 April 2018

District government

image by Tomislav Šipek, 27 December 2017

The flag of the Kurtalan district government (photo) is white with the government's emblem. "T.C." stands for "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti", "Republic of Turkey"; "Kaymakamlığı" means "District government".

The pumpjacks refer to the Magrip oil field.
Reserves of high quality oil have been discovered in the Magrip field in the Turkish province of Siirt Kurtalan, Trend News agency reported referring to the Aksham newspaper.
Oil reserves were found at a depth of 2,000 metres as a result of exploratory works carried out on this field during the past two and a half months.
Currently, work defining the field's reserves is underway. If the supply of oil from the field is sufficient, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) will develop the Magrip field.
[AzerNews, 18 January 2013]

The locomotive refers to the Kurtalan railway station, which forms the eastern terminus of the Southern Express line (Ankara-Kurtalan, 1,212 km via Kayseri, Sivas, Malatya, Diyarbakır and Batman). Extension of the line to Siirt is planned.

Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 16 April 2018

Municipalities

Kurtalan

image by Tomislav Šipek, 28 February 2025

The flag now uses the new logo design, featuring an oil well on a mountainside, before a rising sun.
Photo: https://kurtalanbelediyesiakademi.com/V2
Tomislav Šipek, 28 February 2025

Previous flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 27 December 2017

The flag of Kurtalan (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".

Tomislav Šipek, 27 December 2017

Kayabağlar

image by Tomislav Šipek, 28 February 2025

The flag has a logo consisting of conjoined brick wall and leafy branches as a garland around a pot.
Photo: https://www.siirtpress.com
Tomislav Šipek, 28 February 2025