Ovacık, Tunceli

Ovacık (Kurdish: Pulur, Ottoman Turkish: پلور, romanized: Pulur,[1]) is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Ovacık District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.[2] It is populated by Kurds of the Abasan tribe and had a population of 3,018 in 2021.[3][4]

Etymology

Its name is derived from a small plain between the Munzur and Mercan mountains (ova meaning plain).[5]

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.[6] In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarıgül from the CHP was elected mayor.[7]

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