Çiftepınar

Çiftepınar is a village in Erdemli district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It lies along the west bank of Karakız creek. It was spun off from Pınarbaşı, a nearby village, in 1954, and it makes up a larger conglomeration, along with both Pınarbaşı and Elvanlı, another village to the south. Its distance to Erdemli is and to Mersin is. The population of Pınarbaşı is 957 as of 2012. . The town was founded by a Turkmen tribe named Keşli Türkmen. The village economy depends agriculture and especially citrus farming.