Çağlayancerit

Çağlayancerit
Çağlayancerit
Coordinates:
Country	Turkey
Province	Kahramanmaraş
Government
• Mayor	Küçük Mehmet Yıldızlı (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Ercan Öter (seit 2009)
Area
• District	416.82 km2 (160.94 sq mi)
Elevation	1,150 m (3,770 ft)
Population (2012)
• Urban	12,088
• District	25,692
• District density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Post code	46720
Website	www.caglayancerit.bel.tr

Çağlayancerit (Kurdish: Cirîd‎) is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey.

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.

External links

• District governor's official website (Turkish)