Karaköprü


Karaköprü is a district and second level municipality in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its eponymous city center is slightly north from central Urfa. In the local elections of March 2019, Metin Baydilli was elected Mayor of Karaköprü. The current Kaymakam is Ufuk Akıl.
According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law, all Turkish provinces with a population of more than 750 000, will become metropolitan municipalities and the districts within the metropolitan municipalities will be second level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts.
Therefore in 2014, the Şanlıurfa central district was split into three. The northern quarters of the city will be named Karaköprü and the name Şanlıurfa will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality.

Rural area

There were 86 villages in the rural area of Karaköprü. Now, their official status of the villages became "neighborhood of Karaköprü".