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Çağlayancerit
Çağlayancerit is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Etymology The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of Jerid. 2009 helicopter crash On March 25, 2009, Great Union Party's (BBP) leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu came to Çağlayancerit at 13:00 EET (11:00 UCT) by a chartered helicopter to hold a speech at his party's rally ahead of the local elections. After the rally at the town's square before 1,500 people gathered, he left at 14:42 local time with the same helicopter carrying his party's three other local politicians and a reporter to head for another rally in Yerköy, Yozgat Province. The helicopter crashed at Mount Keş in Göksun Göksun ( gr, Κυκυσός, ''Kykysós'', or Κουκουσός, ''Koukousós''; Latin: ''Coxon'' or ''Cucusus;'' Armenian: ''Կոկիսոն'') is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, near one of ... district killing the pilot and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çağlayancerit District
Çağlayancerit is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Etymology The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of Jerid. 2009 helicopter crash On March 25, 2009, Great Union Party's (BBP) leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu came to Çağlayancerit at 13:00 EET (11:00 UCT) by a chartered helicopter to hold a speech at his party's rally ahead of the local elections. After the rally at the town's square before 1,500 people gathered, he left at 14:42 local time with the same helicopter carrying his party's three other local politicians and a reporter to head for another rally in Yerköy, Yozgat Province. The helicopter crashed at Mount Keş in Göksun Göksun ( gr, Κυκυσός, ''Kykysós'', or Κουκουσός, ''Koukousós''; Latin: ''Coxon'' or ''Cucusus;'' Armenian: ''Կոկիսոն'') is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, near one of ... district killing the pilot and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düzbağ
Düzbağ is a town in Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey Geography Düzbağ is in the rural area of Çağlayancerit which is a part of Kahramanmaraş Province. The coordinates of the town are . The town is situated at the southern foothill of a mountain. The altitude of the midtown is . The highway distance to Çağlayancerit is and to Kahramanmaraş is . The population was 6,032 in 2009. History No record survives from the 15th century when the settlement was a part of Dulkadirids. The settlement was annexed by the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Selim I in 1517. According to a census soon after the annexation, the name of the village was shown as ''Helete'' and the population of Helete was found out to be 200. In 1968 the village was declared a township named Düzbağ. Economy The traditional economic activity is animal husbandry. The main agricultural crops are fruits, especially grapes and apples. There is also a small carpet weaving factory. Since the 1960s Düzba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerköy
Yerköy is a town and district of Yozgat Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 48,889 of which 32,228 live in the town of Yerköy. The Mayor is Ferhat Yilmaz from the İyi Party ( İYİ). 2009 Great Union Party's rally A rally of the Great Union Party (BBP) was scheduled at 17:00 EET (15:00 UTC) on March 25, 2009 in the town, at which party leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was expected to hold a speech before the upcoming local elections. Yazıcıoğlu was underway from another rally in Çağlayancerit, Kahramanmaraş by a chartered helicopter. The helicopter crashed at Mount Keş in Göksun district of Kahramanmaraş Province Kahramanmaraş Province kurdish( tr, Kahramanmaraş ili ) is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is the city of Kahramanmaraş, the traffic code is 46. Geography Kahramanmaraş is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and ..., causing the death of the pilot and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Union Party
The Great Unity Party ( tr, Büyük Birlik Partisi, BBP) or Great Union Party is a far-right Sunni Islamist and ultranationalist political party in Turkey, created on 29 January 1993.Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu's biography It is considered to be close to the organization, Turkey/Istanbul – Istanbul Police Chief claims there was no political motivation behind Hrant Dink’s murder! ''Sendika'' and is related to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahramanmaraş Province
Kahramanmaraş Province kurdish( tr, Kahramanmaraş ili ) is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is the city of Kahramanmaraş, the traffic code is 46. Geography Kahramanmaraş is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude. Districts Kahramanmaraş province is divided into 10 districts (İlçe): *Kahramanmaraş (Central district, soon to be split into Dulkadiroğlu and Onikişubat) *Afşin *Andırın *Çağlayancerit * Ekinözü *Elbistan *Göksun *Nurhak *Pazarcık * Türkoğlu Health Air pollution in Turkey is a chronic problem here, in part due to the coal-fired Afşin-Elbistan power stations. Economy Kahramanmaraş has historically been famous for its gold. The textile industry is relatively new and mostly machinated. Education The Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Universitybr>is a recently founded university supplying social, language and technical sciences as well as medicine, medical education. Cuisine The province's most famou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Kahramanmaraş Province
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Kahramanmaraş Province
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göksun
Göksun ( gr, Κυκυσός, ''Kykysós'', or Κουκουσός, ''Koukousós''; Latin: ''Coxon'' or ''Cucusus;'' Armenian: ''Կոկիսոն'') is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, near one of the sources of the Ceyhan River (ancient Pyramos),in the ancient region of Cataonia. History Cucusus has an ancient history, first included in Cataonia, then in Cappadocia, and then in the Roman province of Armenia Secunda. The Byzantine bishops, Paul the Confessor (died 350 AD), John Chrysostom (died 407 AD) and Emperor Basiliscus (died 476 AD) either died in or were exiled to this remote place. Of its bishops, Domnus took part in the Council of Chalcedon (451), Longinus was a signatory of the joint letter of the bishops of the province of Armenia Secunda to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 concerning the murder of Proterius of Alexandria, Ioannes was at the Second Council of Constantinople (553), and another Ioannes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yozgat Province
Yozgat Province ( tr, ) is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Çorum to the northwest, Kırıkkale to the west, Kırşehir to the southwest, Nevşehir to the south, Kayseri to the southeast, Sivas to the east, Tokat to the northeast, and Amasya to the north. The provincial capital is Yozgat. Districts Yozgat province is divided into 14 districts (capital district in bold): * Akdağmadeni * Aydıncık * Boğazlıyan * Çandır * Çayıralan * Çekerek * Kadışehri * Saraykent * Sarıkaya * Şefaatli * Sorgun * Yenifakılı * Yerköy * Yozgat See also *List of populated places in Yozgat Province Below is the list of populated places in Yozgat Province, Turkey by the districts. In the following lists first place in each list is the administrative center of the district. Yozgat *Yozgat *Aktaş, Yozgat *Akyamaç, Yozgat *Alemdar, Yozgat * ... References External links *Yozgat official website*Yozgat governor's official website*Yozgat municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Turkey
Turkey is divided into 81 provinces ( tr, il). Each province is divided into a number of districts (). Each provincial government is seated in the central district (). For non- metropolitan municipality designated provinces, the central district bears the name of the province (e.g. the city/district of Rize is the central district of Rize Province Rize Province ( tr, Rize ili) is a province of northeast Turkey, on the eastern Black Sea coast between Trabzon and Artvin. The province of Erzurum is to the south. It was formerly known as Lazistan, the designation of the term of Lazistan was o ...). Each province is administered by an appointed governor () from the Ministry of the Interior (Turkey), Ministry of the Interior. List of provinces Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate codes. Initially, the order of the codes matched the alphabetical order of the province names. After Zonguldak (code 67), the ordering is not alphab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Turkish Local Elections
Local elections were held in Turkey on 29 March 2009. The overall winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 Turkish general election, 2007 general election. The leading opposition party, the social democratic Kemalist Republican People's Party, CHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including the Felicity Party, SP, Democratic Society Party, DTP and Great Union Party, BBP, whose party leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu had died in a 2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash, helicopter crash four days before the election. The third largest party, the Turkish nationalist Nationalist Movement Party, MHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge. The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's Young Party, GP. The AKP failed to take certain Provinces of Turkey, provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır Province, Diyarbakır, İzmir Province, İzmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerid (tribe)
Jerid ( tr, Cerit) is a Turkoman tribe inhabiting the provinces of Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Ankara, Çankırı, Balıkesir, and Aydın in Turkey. Etymology The etymological origin of the name of the tribe is disputed. In some parts of Turkey, ''jerid'' means skilled, vivacious, and fast, and it is believed that either the Jerid tribe was associated with these attributes or the term was derived from the tribe instead. It is also proposed that the tribe's name comes from ''jereed'', a traditional sport played with javelins. Likewise, 19th-century traveler William Francis Ainsworth translated the tribe's name as the "short-lance." History Jerid appeared first with the Beylik of Dulkadir in the 14th century, inhabiting the region of Marash and Elbistan. In the 16th century, portions of the tribe spread to the vicinity of Niğde, Kayseri, and Sivas from Marash Sanjak. In late 17th and early 18th centuries, several sub-tribes of Jerid were exiled to Raqqa and Balikh, which portio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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