Kocaköy ( Kurdish : Karaz ; Ottoman Turkish : کاراز ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province , Turkey . Its area is 248 km, and its population is 15,355 (2022). It is populated by Kurds .
5-704: 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. There are 22 neighbourhoods in Kocaköy District: During the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK),
10-653: 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. This geographical article about a location in Diyarbakır Province , Turkey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rojda Nazl%C4%B1er Rojda Nazlıer is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) from Turkey . She
15-625: The buildings in her possession into centers of the HPG were taken into account. Besides, she was accused of having attended the Newroz festivities and having taken part in a memorial service for the hunger striker Zülküf Hezen. In October 2019, she was transferred from a women's prison in Diyarbakir in Turkish Kurdistan , to the women's prison of Kayseri in the centre of Turkey . On 14 December 2020, she
20-638: The mayor of the Kocaköy in the municipal elections of March 2019 . After an investigation on terror-related charges was opened, she was dismissed by the Turkish Ministry of the Interior on 21 October 2020 and a state-appointed trustee assumed the post of an acting mayor. In her trial, testimonies of secret witnesses who accused her of being a member of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) and allegedly having transformed
25-547: Was elected as the mayor of Kocaköy , in March 2019 but was removed from her post in October 2019 on grounds of an investigation in terror related charges. Rojda Nazlıer was born in Lice in the Diyarbakir province , where she attended primary and secondary school. Before becoming mayor, she worked for several Non Governmental Organizations focused on women related issues. She was elected
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