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Tutak (Armenian: Դութախ - Duthakh, Kurdish: Dûtax[3]), is a town and a district of Ağrı Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located on a small plain surrounded by high mountains and watered by the Murat River, on the road from the city of Ağrı to the district of Patnos. It covers an area of 1,562 km² and the altitude is 1,535 m. The population (2010) is 34,812, of which 7,170 live in the town of Tutak, and the majority in the surrounding countryside. The mayor is Fırat Öztürk (BDP).

Tutak
Tutak
Coordinates: 39°32′32″N 42°46′18″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Ağrı
Government
• Mayor	Bülent Duru (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Gürbüz Saltaş
Area [1]
• District	1,543.98 km2 (596.13 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	7,184
• District	34,222
• District density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Post code	04700
Website	www.tutak.bel.tr

Tutak is a small town providing schools, a hospital and other basic amenities to this impoverished rural district. The main source of income in the district is grazing livestock on the mountainside.

Winters are long and hard with a lot of snow, summers are hot and dry.

Notable Locals

• Halis Öztürk, Politician

See also

• 2007 Ağrı earthquake
• Yazidis in Turkey

References

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