Geography speciality of Halfeti (Şanlıurfa)

Halfeti is a city center, which takes place part of Orta Fırat of Guneydogu Anadolu Region, and it isone of the cities of Sanlıurfa. Halfeti,in Sanlıurfa Plateau, takes place Sanlıurfa's border with Gaziantep. It is neighbour of Araban,Yavuzeli and Nizip(GAZİANTEP) in its western border; Besni(ADIYAMAN) in its northern border; Bozova(ŞANLIURFA) in its eastern border and Birecik(ŞANLIURFA) in its southern border. Halfeti City Border is 646 km2 as acreage. Hictorical past of Halfeti goes to 2000 BC, it had many changes of places. Firstly,it is known taht it is in historical Rumkale, is in Gaziantep(BC 2000s). It was moved to Eski(old) Halfeti in 19th century and it was made a city centre and finally it was moved to Yeni(new) Halfeti,because it was sunk under one of Euphrates River Dams' lake. Its average high is 525m and maximum high difference is 263m. Although it takes place in a half-steppe place because of space, it has a climate, which is like a half-Mediterranean climate(and which is with microclimate speciality). The most important hydrographic thing is Euphrates River. It has some places, which are in a very strong wash danger and agricultural activities have been affected in positive and negative views by the dam. Pistachio nut is the most common product of agriculture in there. Population speciality and emplacement have changed in a serious degree because of to have changed physical conditions. In the beginning of 2014, there were 2755 houses in Halfeti. Changes of population of the city has been always seen because of some reasons. We can point at managerial changes, sending of people to wars in war periods, internal and external immigrations(economic reason) and the obligatory immigration because of the dam assome of these reasons. In 1935,population of the city is 1989, by the time 2007 came, it was raised to 10238 with increases and decreases. In 2014, it was lowered to 8604 people.This work tries to show the changes of special dispersion of population with the reasons in the city, which has a rural character and has been mentioned very much because of either its historical or natural beauty. Key Words: Halfeti, Cittaslow, Birecik Dam ,Fırat River, Population