Akyazı is a municipality and
district
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of
Sakarya Province,
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. Its area is 628 km
2, and its population is 94,494 (2022).
The mayor is Bilal Soykan (
AKP).
Composition
There are 76
neighbourhoods in Akyazı District:
* Akbalık
* Alaağaç
* Altındere Cumhuriyet
* Altındere Gündoğan
* Altındere Osmanağa
* Ballıkaya
* Batakköy
* Bedil Kazancı
* Bedilkadirbey
* Bediltahirbey
* Beldibi
* Bıçkıdere
* Boztepe
* Buğdaylı
* Çakıroğlu
* Çatalköprü
* Çıldırlar
* Cumhuriyet
* Cumhuriyet (Küçücek)
* Dedeler
* Dokurcun Çaylar Yeni Mahalle
* Dokurcun Çengeller
* Dokurcun Kuloğlu
* Durmuşlar
* Düzyazı
* Erdoğdu
* Eskibedil
* Fatih
* G. Süleymanpaşa
* Gebeş
* Gökçeler
* Güvençler
* Güzlek
* Hanyatak
* Harunusta
* Hasanbey
* Hastane
* Haydarlar
* İnönü
* Kabakulak
* Karaçalılık
* Kepekli
* Kızılcıkorman
* Konuralp
* Küçücek İstiklal
* Kumköprü
* Kuzuluk Ortamahalle
* Kuzuluk Şose
* Kuzuluk Topçusırtı
* Madenler
* Mansurlar
* Merkez Yeniköy
* Ömercikler
* Osmanbey
* Pazarköy
* Reşadiye
* Salihiye
* Şerefiye
* Seyfeler
* Sukenarı
* Taşağıl
* Taşburun
* Taşyatak
* Topağaç
* Türkormanköy
* Uzunçınar
*
Vakıf
* Yağcılar
* Yahyalı
* Yeni
* Yenidoğan
* Yeniorman
* Yongalık
* Yörükyeri
* Yunusemre
* Yuvalık
Electrocution incident
On 23 June 2017, five people died of
electrocution
Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death.
The term "electrocution" was coined ...
after a swimming pool at a water park in Akyazı became electrified. Three children aged 12, 15 and 17 were the first to be electrocuted. The park's manager Mehmet Kaya, 58, and his son Kadir Kaya, 30, dived in to save them but were also seriously injured. The five victims died in hospital; another person was seriously injured during the incident and was taken to hospital.
Notable people
*
Sofuoğlu family, three champion motorcycle racers
References
External links
Akyazı HaberSakarya Haber
Populated places in Sakarya Province
Districts of Sakarya Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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