Ayancık

Ayancık is a town in Sinop Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Ayancık District. Its population is 13,277 (2022). The mayor is Hayrettin Kaya (CHP).

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Turkey place.type: municipality
Turkey place.name: Ayancık
Turkey place.province: Sinop
Turkey place.district: Ayancık
Turkey place.leader_party: CHP
Turkey place.leader_name: Hayrettin Kaya
Turkey place.population_total: 13277
Turkey place.population_as_of: 2022
Turkey place.postal_code: 57400
Turkey place.area_code: 0368
Turkey place.blank1_name: Climate
Turkey place.blank1_info: Cfa

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Population: 23739

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postal code: 57400
Commons category: Ayancık
urban population: 9534
rural population: 32898

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Ayancık is a town in Sinop Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Ayancık District. Its population is 13,277 (2022). The mayor is Hayrettin Kaya (CHP).

==History== In the late 19th and early 20th century, Ayancık was part of the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Being the most ideal hilltop in Sinop, Ayancık was the site of a US military radar station from 1951 to 1992 during the Cold War. The radar was finally shut down in 1999 due to its technological obsolescence, and many of the locals migrated to Germany due to unemployment.