A village ( Turkish : köy , karye in the Ottoman era ) is the second smallest settlement unit in Turkey .
2-626: Tuzluçayır , formerly Çorak , is a village in the Refahiye District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds and had a population of 41 in 2022. This geographical article about a location in Refahiye District , Turkey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Villages of Turkey The 51 regular provinces of Turkey and 30 province-level metropolitan municipalities are divided into districts . A 2013 reform converted all 16,803 villages in
4-525: The metropolitan municipalities, into neighborhoods ( Turkish : mahalle ) of the districts. Remaining villages are in the rural areas of the districts in regular provinces, and have about 8.7% of the country's population. Each village or neighborhood elects a muhtar . Some more populous villages have been incorporated as towns ( Turkish : belde ), but in the others, the muhtar is responsible for all village services. As of 2023, there are 18,277 villages and 32,261 neighbourhoods in Turkey. During
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