Karayazı
district and town in Erzurum Province, Turkey
Karayazı (Kurdish: Qereyazî) is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,953 km2, and its population is 25,543 (2022). In March 2019 Melike Göksu (HDP) was elected mayor. On 17 September 2019 she was dismissed and arrested due to a sentence of 7 years and 6 months for terrorist propaganda. Kaymakam Mesut Tabakçıoğlu was appointed as a trustee instead.
“Karayazı” enters the record as district and town in Erzurum Province, Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Karayazı, district and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Karayazı” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Karayazı, district and town provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1023333. Authority coordinates are 39.703, 42.145. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2019.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Karayazı”, its source revision and the description used here.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Karayazı” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.