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Yeşilyurt, Gaziantep

mahalle (administrative quarter) in Islahiye, Gaziantep, south-central Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ6517316 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yeşilyurt (Kurdish: Dolan) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İslahiye, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,918 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). It is populated by Kurds.

History

The town was founded in 1991 as a result of merging the three villages of Dolan, Yenioba and Alagöz. Major economic activities of the town are viticulture and peach gardening.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yeşilyurt, Gaziantep” is mahalle (administrative quarter) in Islahiye, Gaziantep, south-central Turkey. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yeşilyurt, Gaziantep and mahalle, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2013, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Yeşilyurt, Gaziantep and mahalle is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “mahalle (administrative quarter) in Islahiye, Gaziantep, south-central Turkey” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6517316. Authority coordinates are 36.900, 36.567. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2013 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yeşilyurt, Gaziantep” 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.