Onikişubat is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey.[2] Its area is 2,429 km2,[3] and its population is 453,730 (2022).[1] The district Onikişubat was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Kahramanmaraş, along with the new district Dulkadiroğlu.[4][5] It covers the western part of the agglomeration of Kahramanmaraş and the adjacent countryside. The name Kahramanmaraş is reserved for the metropolitan municipality.
Onikişubat | |
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District and municipality | |
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 Map showing Onikişubat District in Kahramanmaraş Province | |
  Onikişubat Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°34′40″N 36°55′25″E / 37.57778°N 36.92361°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Kahramanmaraş |
Area | 2,429 km2 (938 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 453,730 |
| • Density | 186.8/km2 (483.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Area code | 0344 |
| Website | www |
"Onikişubat" means "12 February"; it refers to the date of recovery of Kahramanmaraş during the Turkish War of Independence in 1920.
History
editIt was created as a result of the division of the central district of Kahramanmaraş into two by the law number 6360 adopted by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 12 November 2012.[6]
2026 shooting
editOn 15 April 2026, a school shooting occurred at the Ayser Çalık Secondary School in the Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. İsa Aras Mersinli, a 14-year-old student[7] enrolled at the school, shot and killed 10 people and injured 12 more. Mersinli died from hypovolemic shock after sustaining a fatal knife injury while attempting to flee the scene.
The shooting occurred the day after a school shooting in the Siverek district of Şanlıurfa Province.[8] It is the deadliest school shooting in the history of Turkey.[9]
Composition
editThere are 141 neighbourhoods in Onikişubat District:[10]
- 5 Nisan
- Abdülhamidhan
- Afşar
- Ağcalı
- Akçakoyunlu
- Akif Inan
- Altınova
- Avcılar
- Avgasır
- Ayşepınarı
- Barbaros
- Beşbağlar
- Beşen
- Binevler
- Boğaziçi
- Bulutoğlu
- Büyüksır
- Çağırgan
- Çağlayan
- Çakırdere
- Çakırlar
- Çamlıbel
- Çamlıca
- Çamlık
- Celilli
- Çevrepınar
- Ceyhan
- Çokran
- Cüceli
- Çukurhisar
- Cumhuriyet
- Dadağlı
- Demrek
- Dereboğazı
- Döngel
- Döngele
- Dönüklü
- Dumlupınar
- Ertuğrul Gazi
- Fatih
- Fatmalı
- Gayberli
- Gedemen
- Gölpınar
- Hacıağlar
- Hacıbayramveli
- Hacıbudak
- Hacıibrahimuşağı
- Hacılar
- Hacımustafa
- Hacınınoğlu
- Hartlap
- Hasancıklı
- Haydarbey
- Hayrullah
- Hürriyet
- Ilıca
- İsmailli
- İstiklal
- Kale
- Kalekaya
- Kapıkaya
- Karacaoğlan
- Karadere
- Karamanlı
- Kavlaklı
- Kaynar
- Kazım Karabekir
- Kerimli
- Kertmen
- Kılavuzlu
- Kısıklı
- Kızıldamlar
- Kızılseki
- Köseli
- Köşürge
- Kozcağız
- Küçüksır
- Kumarlı
- Kumaşır
- Kümperli
- Kurtlar
- Kürtül
- Kurucaova
- Maarif
- Mağralı
- Maksutlu
- Malik Ejder
- Mercimektepe
- Mevlana
- Mimar Sinan
- Molla Gürani
- Muratlı
- Necip Fazıl
- Önsen
- Orhangazi
- Oruç Reis
- Öşlü
- Osman Gazi
- Özdenören
- Öztürk
- Payamlı
- Piri Reis
- Rahmacılar
- Reyhanlı
- Saçaklızade
- Sadıklı
- Şahinkayası
- Sarıçukur
- Sarıgüzel
- Sarımollalı
- Saygılı
- Şazibey
- Şehit Abdullah Çavuş
- Şehitevliya
- Selçuklu
- Selimiye
- Serintepe
- Suçatı
- Süleymanlı
- Süleymanşah
- Suluyayla
- Tavşantepe
- Tekerek
- Tekir
- Topçalı
- Uludaz
- Üngüt
- Vadi
- Yamaçtepe
- Yavşanova
- Yenicekale
- Yenidemir
- Yeniyapan
- Yeşilyurt
- Yirmiikigün
- Yolyanı
- Yunusemre
- Yürükselim
- Yusuflar
- Zeytindere
References
edit- 1 2 "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi Archived 6 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ "Law No. 6360". Official Gazette (in Turkish). 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "İl İdaresi ve Mülki Bölümler Şube Müdürlüğü İstatistikleri - İl ve İlçe Kuruluş Tarihleri" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 46. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ↑ "Kanun No. 6360" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 15 November 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2026.
- ↑ "İsa Aras Mersinli kimdir, nereli, kaç yaşındaydı? Kahramanmaraş okul saldırısını yapan İsa Aras Mersinli'nin babası Uğur Mersinli ve annesi Pınar Mersinli..." www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 16 April 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
- ↑ "Student kills nine in Turkey's second school shooting in two days". Reuters. 15 April 2026. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ↑ Saka, Erkan (15 April 2026). "Türkiye had her deadliest school shooting today". Erkan's Field Diary. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ↑ Mahalle Archived 6 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.