Çağlayancerit

Çağlayancerit

Çağlayancerit

District and municipality in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

Çağlayancerit is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey.[2] Its area is 470 km2,[3] and its population is 22,350 (2022).[1]

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Etymology

The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of Jerid (Cerit in Turkish).[4]

Composition

There are 19 neighbourhoods in Çağlayancerit District:[5]

  • Akdere
  • Aksu
  • Bayırlı
  • Bölükdamlar
  • Boylu
  • Bozlar
  • Emiruşağı
  • Engizek
  • Fatih
  • Helete Cumhuriyet
  • Helete Karadağ
  • Helete Yeşiloba
  • Istiklal
  • Kaleköy
  • Küçükcerit
  • Küçüküngüt
  • Oruçpınar
  • Soğukpınar
  • Zeynepuşağı

2009 helicopter crash

Main article: 2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash

On March 25, 2009, Great Union Party's (BBP) leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu came to Çağlayancerit at 13:00 EET (11:00 UCT) by a chartered helicopter to hold a speech at his party's rally ahead of the local elections. After the rally at the town's square before 1,500 people gathered, he left at 14:42 local time with the same helicopter carrying his party's three other local politicians and a reporter to head for another rally in Yerköy, Yozgat Province.

The helicopter crashed at Mount Keş in Göksun district killing the pilot and four passengers, among them Yazıcıoğlu. The reporter survived with injuries and made an emergency call reporting the accident. Subsequent search and rescue operations, conducted by thousands of people and assisted by several helicopters, succeeded to recover the wreckage and the five bodies only three days later due to advert weather conditions in the region. The reporter's corpse was finally found two more days later far from the crash site.

References

  1. [1]
    "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. [2]
    Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. [3]
    "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. [4]
    "Çağlayancerit". T.C. Kahramanmaraş Valiliği. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  5. [5]
    Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
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