A mukhtar is a village chief in the Levant: "an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule". According to Amir S. Cheshin, ...

A muhtar is the elected village head in villages of Turkey and in villages of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

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