Batman, Turkey
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Batman ( formerly Iluh, Armenian Բաթման ) is the capital of the Turkish province of Batman. The city is named after the river Batman and had 2012 348.963 inhabitants. An older name of the city is Elih ( kurd. Êlih ). A railroad track leads to Istanbul, next to it there is an airport. The city was until the 1950s a small village and only through the establishment of companies in the oil industry increased the number of inhabitants. So a mayor (tr. Belediye ) was established in 1955 in Batman and Batman independently by law on 16 May 1990 as a 72 province of Turkey.
Sports
The city and the province of Batman have with the sports club Batman Petrolspor since the 1960s, a sports club, who represents the city especially in football and wrestling. The division football played mainly in the third highest Turkish league, now the second TFF Lig His most successful period of the famous football club between 1997 and 2002, in which one in the second highest Turkish league, in today's TFF 1 Lig played. Besides Batman Petrolspor the city has 72 Batmanspor ( 1987 to 2009 under the name of Batman Belediyespor known) another football club, which has most of the time in the second TFF Lig TFF and played 3 Lig. This association reached even before Batman Petrolspor the second division participation and played in the two seasons 1992/93 and 1994/ 95 in the TFF 1 Lig For summer 2011, missed 72 Batmanspor the league in the TFF 3 Lig and put up at the regional amateur league.
Famous people
- Ahmet Arı, Turkish soccer player
- Devran Ayhan, Turkish soccer player
- Mehmet Emin Ekmen, Turkish politicians
- Mehmet Gönülaçar, Turkish football player and coach
- Orhan Kapucu, football player and coach
- Nurullah Kaya, Turkish soccer player
- Veysi Emer, Kurdish musician
- Erdal Akdari, Turkish soccer player
Trivia
In the spring of 2009 caused a planned lawsuit filing of the incumbent Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan for media furore. He accused the British-American director and producer Christopher Nolan to have misappropriated the name of the city for his film project The Dark Knight.