District and municipality in Diyarbakır, Turkey
Kocaköy (
Kurdish : Karaz ;
[2]
Ottoman Turkish : کاراز
[3] ) is a municipality and
district of
Diyarbakır Province ,
Turkey .
[4] Its area is 248 km2 ,
[5] and its population is 15,355 (2022).
[1] It is populated by
Kurds .
[2]
Politics
In the local elections in March 2019
Rojda Nazlıer was elected mayor.
[6] In October 2019 she was dismissed and charged with being a member of a terrorist organization.
[7] The current
District Governor is Yasin Yunak,
[8] who was also appointed as trustee after Nazlıer was dismissed.
[9]
Composition
There are 22
neighbourhoods in Kocaköy District:
[10]
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.
[11]
In 2017 curfews were declared by the Turkish government aimed to support the fight against the PKK.
[12]
References
^
a
b
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS) .
TÜİK . Retrieved 12 July 2023 .
^
a
b
"Nameyê Mezra û Dewanê Karazî" (PDF) (in Kurdish). Retrieved 29 September 2023 .
^ Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla) , T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 284.
^
Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri" . General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 12 July 2023 .
^ Şafak, Yeni (2019-11-13).
"Diyarbakır Kocaköy Seçim Sonuçları – Kocaköy Yerel Seçim Sonuçları" . Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-11-13 .
^
"Dismissed Kocaköy Co-Mayor Nazlıer Faces 15 Years in Prison" . Bianet . Retrieved 13 November 2019 .
^
"Kaymakam Yasin Yunak" . www.kocakoy.gov.tr . Retrieved 2019-11-13 .
^
"Trustees appointed to 4 district municipalities in Turkey's southeast" . DailySabah . 22 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-13 .
^
Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ Jongerden, Joost (2010-03-29).
"Village Evacuation and Reconstruction in Kurdistan (1993-2002)" . Études rurales (in French) (186): 77–100.
doi :
10.4000/etudesrurales.9241 .
ISSN
1777-537X .
^ Kurdistan24.
"Turkey declares curfew in Kurdish province of Diyarbakir" . Kurdistan24 . Retrieved 2019-11-13 . {{
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