Ovacık, Tunceli
Ovacık (Kurdish: Pulur, Ottoman Turkish: پلور, romanized: Pulur,[1]) is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Ovacık District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.[2] It is populated by Kurds of the Abasan tribe and had a population of 3,018 in 2021.[3][4]
Etymology
Its name is derived from a small plain between the Munzur and Mercan mountains (ova meaning plain).[5]
Politics
It was the only town to elect a communist mayor in 2014 Turkish local elections, Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, member of the Communist Party of Turkey. He made public transport free of charge and in 2017 he opened a municipal agricultural cooperative that produced chickpeas, beans, and honey and according to Maçoğlu gave work to 250 people.[6] In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarıgül from the CHP was elected mayor.[7]
References
- ^ Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 414.
- ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ Bayrak, Mehmet (1994). Kürdoloji belgeleri: açık - gizli, resmi - gayrıresmi (in Turkish). ÖZGE Yayınları. p. 275.
- ^ Tuzlac, Ertan; Doùan, Ahmet (2010). "Turkish folk medicinal plants, IX: Ovacik (Tunceli)". Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal. 14: 136–143. doi:10.12991/201014449.
- ^ Nawa, Fariba (2018-04-21). "The Unlikely New Hero of Turkey's Opposition". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ "Tunceli Ovacık Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
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