Reşadiye is a district of

Tokat Tokat is the capital city of Tokat Province of Turkey in the mid-Black Sea region of Anatolia. It is located at the confluence of the Tokat River (Tokat Suyu) with the Yeşilırmak. In the 2018 census, the city of Tokat had a population of 155,00 ...

located within the Cappadocia land within the Kızılırmak arc in the central part of the Black Sea. It is on the E E80 highway, on the edge of the Kelkit Stream. Reşadiye is surrounded by Ordu in the north,

Almus Almus is a town and a district of Tokat Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. The mayor is Hasan Hüseyin Arıkan ( AKP). See also *Almus Dam The Almus Dam (Almus Barajı in Turkish) is an earthen embankment dam that is near the town o ...

in the south, Niksar and

Başçiftlik Başçiftlik is a town and a district of Tokat Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transco ...

in the west and Sivas in the southeast. According to the 2020 TUIK data, its total population is 43,870.

Geography

Geographically, it is located between 400 31 'north latitudes and 370 06' east longitudes and the highest hill of Reşadiye, established on the banks of the Kelkit River, is Erdem Baba Hill with 2.183 meters. This is followed by Küçük Erdem Hill (2.113 meters), Kabaktepe (2.037 meters), Çal Hill (2.022 meters), Mektep Hill, Tömbül Hill and Lalelik Hill. All of these heights are located in Günüş Mountain. Zinav Lake is located within the boundaries of the district.

Terror Attacks

The town was the scene of two major insurgent attacks during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, the first one being the

Sazak assault The Sazak assault was an ambush carried out in 1997, in the Sazak neighbourhood of Reşadiye, in Turkey's Tokat Province Tokat Province ( tr, ) is a province in northern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Amasya to the northwest, Yozgat to the so ...

in 1997, a joint operation between the PKK, DHKP/C and the TKP/ML, killing 4 soldiers and the second being the

Reşadiye shooting The Reşadiye shooting was an ambush that took place on December 7, 2009, at Reşadiye, Tokat Province, Turkey. Unidentified gunmen ambushed a Turkish patrol, killing seven soldiers and wounding three others. It was the region's deadliest attack ...

in 2009 in which the PKK killed 7 and injured 3 soldiers.

Notable people

Hüseyin Özer Hüseyin Özer (born 1949 in Reşadiye, Tokat Province, Turkey) is a Turkish British executive chef and restaurateur, who owns a restaurant chain based in London. Early life Hüseyin Özer was born in 1949, in a village of Reşadiye town in T ...

, Turkish-British executive chef and restaurateur

References

Populated places in Tokat Province Districts of Tokat Province {{Tokat-geo-stub