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Bekbele
Bekbele is a town in İskenderun district of Hatay Province, Turkey. It is situated mostly to the east of Çukurova Motorway at . It is almost merged to İskenderun. The distance to Antakya (the administraticve center of the province) is about . The population of Bekbele was 7,548 as of 2012.The settlement was founded in by a tribe named Abacılı from Dulkadir territory (present Kahramanmaraş Province) of the Ottoman Empire towards the end of the 18th century. According to mayor's page, Abacılı which refers to manufacturing coarse woolen cloth was a subtribe of Bayat, a Turkmen tribe.