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Municipality in Tunceli Province, Turkey Village in Tunceli, Turkey
Ovacık
Village
Ovacık is located in TurkeyOvacıkOvacıkLocation in Turkey
Coordinates: 39°21′31″N 39°12′59″E / 39.35861°N 39.21639°E / 39.35861; 39.21639
CountryTurkey
ProvinceTunceli
DistrictOvacık
Government
 • MayorMustafa Sarıgül (CHP)
Population3,018
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)
Websitewww.tunceliovacik.bel.tr

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

Etymology

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

Politics

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. In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarıgül from the CHP was elected mayor.

References

  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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