Yeniceoba

Yeniceoba is a municipality in the province of Konya in Turkey. It is located in the district of Cihanbeyli. The highway distance from Yeniceoba to Konya is 130 km. During the summer the population increases to approximately 15,000 people when thousands of people traveling from Europe to Yeniceoba to spend their holidays with their families there. Most of diaspora from the municipality live in Denmark , Sweden and Norway. The population of the municipality is 6872 as of 2012[1] About 5000 people emigrated from Yeniceoba to Denmark.[2][3] The municipality is populated by Kurds.[4] The leader of the Rights and Freedoms Party (HAK-PAR), Fehmi Demir, was born in Yeniceoba. Demir killed in a traffic accident while travelling on a motorway through Tarsus in Mersin Province on 25 October 2015.

Yeniceoba
Municipality
Yeniceoba
Location in Yeniceoba within Turkey
Coordinates: 38°52′15″N 32°47′31″E
Country Turkey
ProvinceKonya
DistrictCihanbeyli
Government
 • Mayorİlyas Kara (AKP)
Population
 (2012)[1]
 • Total6,872
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
42890
Area code(s)0332 676
Vehicle registration42
Websitewww.yeniceoba.bel.tr

Politics

2007 general election
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 2,279 64.7%
CHP Republican People's Party 540 15.3%
BUA Thousand Hope Candidates 390 11.1%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 107 3%
Other 204 5.8%
Total 3,520
Turnout 75.13%
sources: YSKYSK

2011 general election
Abbr. Party Votes % +/-
AKP Justice and Development Party 1,734 53.8% 10.9
DTP Democratic Society Party 775 24.1% 13.0
CHP Republican People's Party 404 12.5% 2.8
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 62 1.9% 1.1
Other 247 7.7% 1.9
Total 3,222
Turnout 64.03%
source: YSK

2015 general election
Abbr. Party Votes % +/-
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 1,737 58.8% 34.7
AKP Justice and Development Party 992 33.6% 20.2
CHP Republican People's Party 149 5% 7.8
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 37 1.3% 0.6
Other 41 1.4% 0.5
Total 2,956
Turnout 69.9%
source: YSK

2018 general election
Abbr. Party Votes % +/-
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 1,801 61.4% 2.6
AKP Justice and Development Party 835 28.5% 5.1
CHP Republican People's Party 187 6.4% 1.4
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 33 1.1% 0.2
Other 78 2.7% 1.3
Total 2,934
Turnout 70.01%
source: YSK

Twin towns

Notes
  1. "Türkiye istatistik Kurumu; Adrese Dayalı Nüfus Kayıt Sistemi, Nüfus Sayımı Sonuçları" (in Turkish). Archived from the original (XLS) on 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  2. Nicolaisen, Johannes (1973). Folk dansk etnografisk tidsskrift, 14 - 17. Dansk etnografisk forening.
  3. Migration, 1-4 (in English and German). Express, Berliner Institut für Vergleichende Sozialforschung, Europäisches Migrationszentrum. 1987. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  4. "Yeniceoba - Index Anatolicus". nisanyanmap (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  5. "Twin Towns". Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

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