--- title: "Tunceli – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Tunceli, Turkey: Tunceli is a municipality (belde) in Tunceli District and capital of Tunceli Province, Turkey. Every way there from the planner, and what…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tunceli" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tunceli.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/D%C3%AArsim.jpg" --- Municipality in Tunceli Province, Turkey # Tunceli Tunceli is a municipality (belde) in Tunceli District and capital of Tunceli Province, Turkey. ![Tunceli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/D%C3%AArsim.jpg) Tunceli · Wikimedia Commons The place Tunceli is a municipality (belde) in Tunceli District and capital of Tunceli Province, Turkey. The city has a Kurdish majority. The population is predominantly Kurdish Alevi, a distinct ethno-religious community whose identity has been shaped by the region's history of autonomy and resistance to central state authority. It had a population of 35,161 in 2021. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA 4.0. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see Tunceli Museum is on Ali Demir Cd next to Grand Şaroğlu Hotel, in a former barracks. It's open daily 08:00-17:00. Mosques are modern though in trad style. The main ones are Paşalar Cami, Paşa Cami, Cem Evi and Yunus Emre Merkez Cami. Munzur Valley National Park is a scenic area in the side-valley 7 km northwest of town. From [Wikivoyage: Tunceli](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do Atatürk Stadyumu is the main sports venue, 2 km south of town centre along D885. Beaches are the last thing you'd expect here, but there are sandy beaches on Pülümür River, on D885 8 km east of town. From [Wikivoyage: Tunceli](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat A cluster of small eating places in town centre are open daily 07:00-21:00. From [Wikivoyage: Tunceli](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Tunceli **Airports:** Şanlıurfa GAP (GNY), 193 km\ - Şanlıurfa → Tunceli 225 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · ₺640–850 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sanl-urfa-to-tunceli) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=%C5%9Eanl%C4%B1urfa&to=Tunceli) - Gaziantep → Tunceli 295 km · quickest by road, 6h 14m · ₺860–1,150 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gaziantep-to-tunceli) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gaziantep&to=Tunceli) - Kayseri → Tunceli 353 km · quickest by road, 7h 21m · ₺1,030–1,370 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kayseri-to-tunceli) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kayseri&to=Tunceli) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tunceli) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Tunceli Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tunceli. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Shorter is the old road from Elazığ, 77 km via the Pertek ferry crossing of Keban barrage lake. From [Wikivoyage: Tunceli](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 406 km 2. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 412 km 3. [Kutaisi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kutaisi) GE 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 439 km 4. [Abkhazia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/abkhazia) GE 10 ways of moving, 23 sources 450 km 5. [Jvari and the Enguri valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jvari) GE 10 ways of moving, 37 sources 453 km If you know how people move in Tunceli – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctunceli&title=Tunceli&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftunceli), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Tunceli Tunceli is 56 km from [Elazığ](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/elaz-g), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Batman](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/batman) village in central district, Tunceli, eastern Turkey 2.7 km [The place page for Tunceli](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/tunceli) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Turkey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-TR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tunceli, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt