Çağlayancerit is a municipality and

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. Its area is 470 km², and its population is 22,350 (2022).

Etymology

The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of Jerid (''Cerit'' in Turkish).

Composition

There are 19

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in Çağlayancerit District:Mahalle
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Helete Helete (formerly: ''Düzbağ'') is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Çağlayancerit, Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey.

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2009 helicopter crash

On March 25, 2009,

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's (BBP) leader

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (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 Unity Party (BBP), a far-right, 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

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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

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. The helicopter crashed at Mount Keş in

Göksun Göksun (, or , ''Koukousós''; or ; ) is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,942 km2, and its population is 50,676 (2022). It is near one of the sources of the Ceyhan River (ancient Pyramos), in the ...

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.

References

External links

District governor's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caglayancerit Populated places in Kahramanmaraş Province Districts of Kahramanmaraş Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey