Karaköprü

Karaköprü is a planned district and second level municipality in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its eponymous city center is slightly north from central Urfa. According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law (law no. 6360), all Turkish provinces with a population of more than 750 000, will become metropolitan municipalities 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, Nihat Çiftçi (AKP) was elected mayor.

Thus after 2014 the present Şanlıurfa (Urfa) central district will be split into three. The northern quarters of the city will be named Karaköprü and the name Şanlıurfa will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality.

Rural area

There were 86 villages in the rural area of Karaköprü. Now, their official status became "neighborhood of Karaköprü".