Oğuzeli

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Oğuzeli
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Oğuzeli (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Gaziantep
Coordinates : 36 ° 58 '  N , 37 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 57 '54 "  N , 37 ° 30' 33"  E
Residents : 17,014 (2012)
Telephone code : (+90) 342
Postal code : 27700
License plate : 27
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Mayor : Mehmet Saıt Kılıç ( AKP )
Website:
Oğuzeli County
Residents : 28,844 (2012)
Surface: 681 km²
Population density : 42 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : Arif Gül
Website (Kaymakam):
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Oğuzeli (formerly Kızılhisar , German: red castle ; Kurdish تلبشار Tilbişar ) is a city and at the same time the name of a district in the Turkish province of Gaziantep in southeastern Anatolia . The city of Oğuzeli has 17,014 and the district 28,844 inhabitants (as of 2012). Oğuzeli is located in the southeast of the province and borders the Kilis Province and Syria . Oğuzeli has been a district since 1946. At the same time, it was renamed to its current name.

The well-known crusader castle Tilbeşar is located in Oğuzeli .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed November 9, 2014