Country Turkey Post code 46720 Local time Sunday 4:50 AM | Elevation 1,150 m (3,770 ft) Area 417 km² Province Kahramanmaraş Province | |
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Website www.caglayancerit.bel.tr Weather 3°C, Wind E at 6 km/h, 96% Humidity | ||
Çağlayancerit (Kurdish: Cirîd) is a town and district of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey.
Contents
- Map of C387aC49Flayancerit 46720 C387aC49Flayancerit2FKahramanmaraC59F Turkey
- 2009 helicopter crash
- References
Map of %C3%87a%C4%9Flayancerit, 46720 %C3%87a%C4%9Flayancerit%2FKahramanmara%C5%9F, Turkey
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.