Akyazı

Akyazı

Akyazı

District and municipality in Sakarya, Turkey

For other places with the same name, see Akyazı (disambiguation).

Akyazı is a municipality and district of Sakarya Province, Turkey.[3] Its area is 628 km2,[4] and its population is 94,494 (2022).[2] The mayor is Bilal Soykan (AKP).

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Composition

There are 76 neighbourhoods in Akyazı District:[5]

  • Akbalık
  • Alaağaç
  • Altındere Cumhuriyet
  • Altındere Gündoğan
  • Altındere Osmanağa
  • Ballıkaya
  • Batakköy
  • Bedil Kazancı
  • Bedilkadirbey
  • Bediltahirbey
  • Beldibi
  • Bıçkıdere
  • Boztepe
  • Buğdaylı
  • Çakıroğlu
  • Çatalköprü
  • Çıldırlar
  • Cumhuriyet
  • Cumhuriyet (Küçücek)
  • Dedeler
  • Dokurcun Çaylar Yeni Mahalle
  • Dokurcun Çengeller
  • Dokurcun Kuloğlu
  • Durmuşlar
  • Düzyazı
  • Erdoğdu
  • Eskibedil
  • Fatih
  • G. Süleymanpaşa
  • Gebeş
  • Gökçeler
  • Güvençler
  • Güzlek
  • Hanyatak
  • Harunusta
  • Hasanbey
  • Hastane
  • Haydarlar
  • İnönü
  • Kabakulak
  • Karaçalılık
  • Kepekli
  • Kızılcıkorman
  • Konuralp
  • Küçücek İstiklal
  • Kumköprü
  • Kuzuluk Ortamahalle
  • Kuzuluk Şose
  • Kuzuluk Topçusırtı
  • Madenler
  • Mansurlar
  • Merkez Yeniköy
  • Ömercikler
  • Osmanbey
  • Pazarköy
  • Reşadiye
  • Salihiye
  • Şerefiye
  • Seyfeler
  • Sukenarı
  • Taşağıl
  • Taşburun
  • Taşyatak
  • Topağaç
  • Türkormanköy
  • Uzunçınar
  • Vakıf
  • Yağcılar
  • Yahyalı
  • Yeni
  • Yenidoğan
  • Yeniorman
  • Yongalık
  • Yörükyeri
  • Yunusemre
  • Yuvalık

Electrocution incident

On 23 June 2017, five people died of electrocution after a swimming pool at a water park in Akyazı became electrified. Three children aged 12, 15 and 17[6] were the first to be electrocuted. The park's manager Mehmet Kaya, 58, and his son Kadir Kaya, 30,[7] dived in to save them but were also seriously injured.[8] The five victims died in hospital; another person was seriously injured during the incident and was taken to hospital.[9][10]

Notable people

References

  1. [1]
    "Baskan" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  2. [2]
    "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. [3]
    Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. [4]
    "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  5. [5]
    Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  6. [6]
    "Five electrocuted at water park in Turkey". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2017-06-23. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
  7. [7]
    "Turkish water park: Children and adults electrocuted". BBC News. 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  8. [8]
    "Five people dead in mass electrocution at water park in Turkey". The Independent. 2017-06-23. Archived from the original on 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  9. [9]
    "Turkish water park: Children and adults electrocuted". BBC News. 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  10. [10]
    "Five electrocuted at water park in Turkey". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2017-06-23. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-24.


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