Kocaköy ( ku, Karaz; ota, کاراز) is a municipality and

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Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province ( tr, Diyarbakır ili, Zazaki: Suke Diyarbekır ku, Parêzgeha Amedê) is a province in southeastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15,355 km2 and its population is 1,528,958. The provincial capital is the cit ...

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 area is 248 km², and its population is 15,355 (2022).

Politics

In the local elections in March 2019

Rojda Nazlıer Rojda Nazlıer is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) from Turkey. She was elected as the mayor of Kocaköy, in March 2019 but was removed from her post in October 2019 on grounds of an investigation in terror related char ...

was elected mayor. In October 2019 she was dismissed and charged with being a member of a terrorist organization. The current

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is Yasin Yunak, who was also appointed as trustee after Nazlıer was dismissed.

Composition

There are 22

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in Kocaköy District: * Anbar * Arkbaşı * Boyunlu * Bozbağlar * Bozyar * Çakmaklı * Çayırlı * Çaytepe * Eyüpler *

Gökçen Gökçen is a Turkish given name which means "beautiful woman", "blue-eyed woman", or "belonging to the sky", and may refer to: Given names * Gökçen Denkel (born 1985), Turkish female volleyball player * Gökçen Efe (1881–1919), Turkish folk ...

* Gözebaşı * Günalan * Hacıreşit * Kaya * Kokulupınar * Şaklat * Şerifoğulları * Şeyhşerafettin * Suçıktı * Tepecik * Yazıköy * Yenişehir

History

During the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK), a part of the districts rural population was resettled urban areas. In 2017 curfews were declared by the Turkish government aimed to support the fight against the PKK.

References

Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province Populated places in Diyarbakır Province Districts of Diyarbakır Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey {{Diyarbakır-geo-stub