Çağlayancerit is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. Its area is 470 km2, and its population is 22,350 (2022).
Etymology The name of the district comes from the Turkoman tribe of Jerid (Cerit in Turkish).
Composition There are 19 neighbourhoods in Çağlayancerit District:Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
Akdere Aksu Bayırlı Bölükdamlar Boylu Bozlar Emiruşağı Engizek Fatih Helete Cumhuriyet Helete Karadağ Helete Yeşiloba Istiklal Kaleköy Küçükcerit Küçüküngüt Oruçpınar Soğukpınar Zeynepuşağı
2009 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.
References
External links District governor's official website