İncesu (Keçiborlu)

İncesu is a Turkish municipality in the Keçiborlu County of the Isparta Province . It has 1,640 inhabitants (2000 census) and is about 190 kilometers north of Antalya .

The community is dominated by agriculture. There are cooperatives and smaller craft businesses. Incesu has a connection to the central railway network as well as to the main road Antalya - Istanbul / Ankara .

Around 200 residents of İncesu emigrated to Western Europe, mostly to Germany. In 1995 they joined forces in the Education and Solidarity Organization İncesu (BISI).

literature

• Dr. Mehmet Bilir ( Ankara University ): The village of Incesu. Effects of Migration on the Village Community . 1997, ISBN 3-86121-067-3 . Translation of the Turkish title
  • İncesu köyü: Yurtdisi isçi göçünün köydeki toplumsal degismeye etkisi . 1995, ISBN 975-7145-07-6 .
• İncesu: Free days / Hediye Edilmiş Günler . Art book project of the education and solidarity organization İncesu in cooperation with the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences . ISBN 975-17-2932-7 .

Web links

• BISI website
• Emine from İncesu - The story of a migration - Documentation on 3sat

Coordinates: 38 ° 2 ′  N , 30 ° 17 ′  E