Ovacık, Dersim

Ovacık (Ottoman Turkish: پلور‎ Pulur,[3]Old Turkish:Nahîye-î Ovacık[4][5]) is a town and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey.

Ovacık
Ovacık
Coordinates: 39°21′31″N 39°12′59″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Tunceli
Government
• Mayor	Mustafa Sarıgül (CHP)
• Kaymakam	Emre Dündar
Area [1]
• District	1,517.66 km^2 (585.97 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	0
• District	6,352
• District density	4.2/km^2 (11/sq mi)
Post code	62900
Website	http://www.tunceliovacik.gov.tr/

Its name is derived from a small plain between the Munzur and Mercan mountains.[6]

It has a population of 3,227. 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.[7] In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarıgül from the CHP was elected mayor.[8]

References

1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
3. Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 414.
4. The Munzur Father Mythology and Historical Sources Trial, Munzur University
5. http://cemisgezek.gov.tr/tarihce
6. Tuzlac, Ertan; Doùan, Ahmet (2010). "Turkish folk medicinal plants, IX: Ovacik (Tunceli)". Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal. 14: 136–143. doi:10.12991/201014449.
7. Nawa, Fariba (2018-04-21). "The Unlikely New Hero of Turkey's Opposition". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
8. "Tunceli Ovacık Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-05-25.