Çağlayancerit is a town and district of
KahramanmaraÅŸ Province
KahramanmaraÅŸ Province kurdish( tr, KahramanmaraÅŸ ili ) is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is the city of KahramanmaraÅŸ, the traffic code is 46.
Geography
KahramanmaraÅŸ is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and ...
in the
Mediterranean
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region of
Turkey
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.
Etymology
The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of
Jerid.
2009 helicopter crash
On March 25, 2009,
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
Muhsin YazıcıoÄŸlu (December 31, 1954 – March 25, 2009) was a Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Union Party (BBP), a right-wing, nationalist-Islamist political party.
...]
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
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. 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
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 ...
,
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 n ...
.
The helicopter crashed at Mount KeÅŸ 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 four passengers, among them Yazıcıoğlu. The reporter survived with injuries and made an emergency call reporting the accident. Subsequent search and rescue operations, conducted by thousands of people and assisted by several helicopters, succeeded to recover the wreckage and the five bodies only three days later due to advert weather conditions in the region. The reporter's corpse was finally found two more days later far from the crash site.
See also
*
Düzbağ - a town in the district
References
External links
District governor's official website
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Populated places in KahramanmaraÅŸ Province
Districts of KahramanmaraÅŸ Province
Çağlayancerit District
Towns in Turkey