Ortaköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

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. Its population is 227 (2022). It is on the state highway D.715. The distance to Mut is and to

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is . Main economic activity is agriculture. Population of this settlement are from

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origin and they are Alevi Muslims.

History

Ortaköy (formerly Kıpti) is one of the villages established in the last years of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. As a matter of fact, according to the report submitted to the Ottoman Government on the administrative structure of

, dated December 2, 1913, Ortaköy is a neighbourhood with 24 households, a population of 160 (73 women, 87 men) and registered as “Kıpti” affiliated to the central district of Mut. Village people are from

origin who migrated from

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in the

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Population

According to the Ottoman documents, Ortaköy, was known as "Kıpti" or "Mutkiptiyan", had a population of 160 people (73 women, 87 men) in 24 households in 1913. It is noteworthy that the village population followed an unstable course in the Republic period. The population, which was 71 in 1935, increased to 147 in 1940; Then it started to decline and fell to 117 in 1945. The highest population figure that can be seen was 287 people in 1985; but it started to decline again in the following years.

Geography

It is 163 km from the center of

and 3 km from the center of

. It is located on a flat land on the Karaman asphalt, north of Mut. The whitewashed houses of Ortaköy are clustered together on the plain at the base of a small hill to the right of the highway. Among the houses, fruit trees such as figs, plums, pomegranates and mulberries draw attention. The small hill to the north of the village is almost completely bare except for a few bushes on it. The hills to the south are covered with sparse pine trees and bushes.

References

Neighbourhoods in Mut District {{Mersin-geo-stub