Ovacık (, ota, پلور, translit=Pulur,) is a town and its surrounding district in

Tunceli Province Tunceli Province ( tr, Tunceli ili, ku, Parêzgeha Dêrsimê, Zazaki: ), formerly Dersim Province, is located in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The least densely-populated province in Turkey, it was originally named ''Dersim Province' ...

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 ...

. Its name is derived from a small plain between the Munzur and Mercan mountains (ova meaning plain). It has a population of 3,227. It was the only town to elect a

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

mayor in 2014 Turkish local elections,

Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu (Also known as 'The Communist Mayor') (born 20 December 1968, Çemberlitaş, Ovacik) is a Turkish communist politician of Kurdish descent and founder of Socialist Councils Federation (SMF). He is currently the mayor of Tu ...

, 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. In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarıgül from the CHP was elected mayor.

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Populated places in Ovacık District Districts of Tunceli Province Cities in Turkey Turkish Kurdistan Kurdish settlements in Turkey Ovacık District {{Tunceli-geo-stub