Yorgançayır

Yorgançayır
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Bing oil
District ( ilçe ) :	Karlıova
Coordinates :	39 ° 12 '  N , 41 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 11 '45 "  N , 41 ° 6' 30"  E
Height :	1810  m
Residents :	318 (2018)
Telephone code :	(+90) 426
Postal code :	12 900
License plate :	12
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Muhtar :	Ahmet Inan

Yorgançayır (Kurd. Karahamzan ; also Qerehemze ) is a village in Karlıova County in Bingöl Province . Yorgançayır is 1810 m above sea level, 18 km southeast of Karlıova in eastern Turkey .

In 2000 there were 297 people in Yorgançayır and in 2017 a total of 300 people.

Yorgançayır is not connected to the public telephone network and the roads to the village are not paved. There is a primary school and a drinking water supply in the village. There is no sewerage system.

In 2004, the human rights association reported attacks in the village. A person was kidnapped from the village in 2003 and only barely survived. The perpetrators were convicted. In August 2010, a person was shot dead in a property dispute in a hamlet of Yorgançayırs.

The Kurdish name was used as an alternative name in previous censuses.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on May 22, 2019
2. ↑ www.yerelnet.org.tr
3. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları
4. ↑ www.karliova.bel.tr ( Memento from May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ www.ihd.org.tr
6. ↑ www2.tbmm.gov.tr (PDF; 39 kB)
7. ↑ TC Başbakanlık Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü: Genel Nüfus Sayımı: İdari Bölünüş: İl, İlçe, Bucak ve Köy (Muhtarlık) Nüfusları. October 24, 1965, Ankara 1968