Bulanık

Bulanık, formerly Gop or Kop (; ), is a town in Muş Province, in the Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey. It is the seat of Bulanık District. Bulanık was elected from the DEM Party in the 2024 Turkish Local Elections, with Aryan Doğan serving as the mayor. According to the 2024 population census, the district's total population is 70,568.

==History== thumb|A Urartian Bulanık Stele, Bitlis Ahlat Museum In the 19th century Bulanık was the name of the kaza. Its capital, today's Bulanık town, was called Gop, also rendered as Kop. At the end of the 19th century Gop was described as a large village with about 400 houses, all but 50 of them inhabited by Armenians. Although the soil was amongst the most fertile in the region, the inhabitants were almost destitute due to the region's insecurity and the impossibility of exporting their crops. Two miles south of the village was an Armenian monastery named Surb Daniel which contained the relics of a saint of that name.