Hendek is a town and a district of
Sakarya Province
Sakarya ( tr, ) is a province in Turkey, located on the coast of Black Sea. The Sakarya River creates a webbing of estuaries in the province, which is in the Marmara Region. The adjacent provinces are Kocaeli to the west, Bilecik to the south ...
in the
Marmara region of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. The municipality was founded in 1907. The mayor of the city is Ali İnci (
AKP).
Notable natives
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Gaffar Okkan
Ali Gaffar Okkan (1952 – January 24, 2001) was a Turkish police chief who was assassinated in an ambush in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey.
Early life
Ali Gaffar Okkan was born in Hendek, Sakarya Province in 1952. He graduated from Police Col ...
(1952–2001), assassinated police chief
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Süleyman Seba
Süleyman Seba (; 5 April 1926 – 13 August 2014) was a Turkish football player of Abkhazian origin and was the longest presiding Chairman of the Istanbul based multisports club Beşiktaş J.K. He was also an intelligence officer for National ...
(1926–2014), former football player and long-time president of
Beşiktaş J.K.
See also
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Hacıkışla, Hendek Hacıkışla is a village in Hendek district, Sakarya Province of Turkey, with a (2000) population of about 719.
Population
Most of the people in Hacıkışla are from the Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the A ...
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References
External links
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Populated places in Sakarya Province
Districts of Sakarya Province
1907 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
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