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The mayor of Batman is Hüseyn Kalkan, who is a member of the Democratic Society Party . Batman Province is an important Oil producing area, and Batman has Turkey's oldest refinery, established in 1955 . A 494 km long pipeline transports crude oil from Batman to Iskenderun . The railway track at nearby Kurtalan connects the city with Istanbul . There is also a regional airport near Batman. Until the 1950s Batman was a small village with a mostly Kurdish population. When oil companies moved in and the city's economy started to grow, population figures began to rise. Many Turkish workers and state officials settled in the city. Presently Batman has a high unemployment level. According to the ''EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence'', on March 30, 2000, Fatih Tekin, a 3 year old boy, was shot and killed by Turkish Security forces during a police raid on a civilian house in Batman during a series of violent clashes in the Kurdish regions of Turkey. EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence on Khrp.org NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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