Ovacık, Tunceli

Municipality in Tunceli Province, Turkey

Village in Tunceli, Turkey

Ovacık

Village

Ovacık

Location in Turkey

Coordinates: 39°21′31″N 39°12′59″E﻿ / ﻿39.35861°N 39.21639°E﻿ / 39.35861; 39.21639
Country| Turkey
Province| Tunceli
District| Ovacık
Government

• Mayor| Mustafa Sarıgül (CHP)
Population

(2021)

| 3,018
Time zone| TRT (UTC+3)
Website| www.tunceliovacik.bel.tr

Ovacık (Kurdish: Pulur, Ottoman Turkish: پلور, romanized: Pulur,[1]) is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Ovacık District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.[2] It is populated by Kurds of the Abasan tribe and had a population of 3,018 in 2021.[3][4]

## Etymology[edit]

Its name is derived from a small plain between the Munzur and Mercan mountains (ova meaning plain).[5]

## Politics[edit]

It was the only town to elect a communist mayor in 2014 Turkish local elections, Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, member of the Communist Party of Turkey. He made public transport free of charge and in 2017 he opened a municipal agricultural cooperative that produced chickpeas, beans, and honey and according to Maçoğlu gave work to 250 people.[6] In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarıgül from the CHP was elected mayor.[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 414.
2. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
3. ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
4. ^ Bayrak, Mehmet (1994). Kürdoloji belgeleri: açık - gizli, resmi - gayrıresmi (in Turkish). ÖZGE Yayınları. p. 275.
5. ^ Tuzlac, Ertan; Doùan, Ahmet (2010). "Turkish folk medicinal plants, IX: Ovacik (Tunceli)". Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal. 14: 136–143. doi:10.12991/201014449.
6. ^ Nawa, Fariba (2018-04-21). "The Unlikely New Hero of Turkey's Opposition". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
7. ^ "Tunceli Ovacık Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-05-25.

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Ovacık District

Municipalities|

* Ovacık

Villages|

* Adaköy
* Ağaçpınar
* Aktaş
* Akyayık
* Arslandoğmuş
* Aşağıtorunoba
* Aşlıca
* Bilgeç
* Burnak
* Buzlutepe
* Büyükköy
* Cevizlidere
* Çakmaklı
* Çambulak
* Çatköy
* Çayüstü
* Çemberlitaş
* Çöğürlük
* Doludibek
* Eğimli
* Eğrikavak
* Eğripınar
* Elgazi
* Eskigedik
* Garipuşağı
* Gözeler
* Güneykonak
* Halitpınar
* Hanuşağı
* Havuzlu
* Isıtma
* Işıkvuran
* Karaoğlan
* Karataş
* Karayonca
* Kızık
* Konaklar
* Koyungölü
* Kozluca
* Köseler
* Kuşluca
* Mollaaliler
* Otlubahçe
* Öveçler
* Paşadüzü
* Sarıtosun
* Söğütlü
* Şahverdi
* Tatuşağı
* Tepsili
* Topuzlu
* Yakatarla
* Yalmanlar
* Yarımkaya
* Yaylagünü
* Yazıören
* Yenikonak
* Yenisöğüt
* Yeşilyazı
* Yoğunçam
* Yoncalı
* Ziyaret

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