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İpekyolu is a planned district and second level municipality in Van Province, Turkey. According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law (law no. 6360), all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750 000, will be a metropolitan municipality 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. These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014. On 30 March 2014, Aygül Bidav ( BDP) was elected mayor.
Thus after 2014 the present Van central district will be split into two. A part will be named İpekyolu and the name Van will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. ( İpekyolu means Silk road of the Medieval age. Van was an important stop on the silk road.)