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 became valid by the local elections in 2014.
Thus after 2014 the Van central district was split into two.
A part was named İpekyolu and the name Van will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality.
İpekyolu means Silk road, Van was an important stop on the silk road.
Thus after 2014 the present Van central district was split into two. A part was named Tuşba and the name Van was reserved for the metropolitan municipality. (Tuşpa was the capital of the 1st millennium BC Urartu kingdom which was situated in Van.)
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