Kocaköy (;
) is a municipality and
district
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of
Diyarbakır Province
Diyarbakır Province (; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. Its area is 15,101 km2, and its population is 1,804,880 (2022). The provincial capital is the city of Diyarbakır. The Kurdish majority province ...
,
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. Its area is 248 km
2, and its population is 15,355 (2022).
It is populated by
Kurds
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...
.
Politics
In the local elections in March 2019
Rojda Nazlıer was elected mayor. In October 2019 she was dismissed and charged with being a member of a terrorist organization. The current
District Governor is Yasin Yunak, who was also appointed as trustee after Nazlıer was dismissed.
Composition
There are 22
neighbourhoods
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in Kocaköy District:
*
Anbar
*
Arkbaşı
*
Boyunlu
*
BozbaÄŸlar
*
Bozyar
* Çakmaklı
* Çayırlı
*
Çaytepe
* Eyüpler
*
Gökçen
*
Gözebaşı
*
Günalan
* Hacıreşit
* Kaya
* Kokulupınar
*
Åžaklat
* Şerifoğulları
* ÅžeyhÅŸerafettin
*
Suçıktı
*
Tepecik
*
Yazıköy
* YeniÅŸehir
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.
In 2017 curfews were declared by the Turkish government aimed to support the fight against the PKK.
References
Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province
Populated places in Diyarbakır Province
Districts of Diyarbakır Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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