Emirdağ

Emirdağ is a Turkish city of 22.000 inhabitants (10 069 in 1960), in the province of Afyonkarahisar. Its old name turkmene was Cirgin (before 1867), then Aziziye (1867-1933), in homage to the Abdulaziz sultan. Emir daği means the mountain of Emir, it acts of the culminating point (2281 m) of the mounts of Emir to the foot of which the town of Emirdağ is, itself to 1000 m of altitude. The ancient city of, will have become Amorium at the time Roman and Byzantine, is located at 13 km of Emirdağ.

Emigration

Many immigrants Turkish of Belgium (in particular with Schaerbeek, Saint-Jose-ten-Noode, Ghent, Namur, Bastogne) of the Netherlands, of Germany and France (department of North) are originating in Emirdağ, whether it is surrounding city even or villages.

Local policy

Before the municipal elections of 2004, the municipality was managed by a left majority (CHP, SHP, DSP, TIP) directed by the social democrat mayor (CHP) Ismet Güler, who lost the capacity with the profit of a coalition of right-hand side and extreme line (AKP, MHP, DYP, ANAP, 10 seats out of 15) directed by moderate islamist engineer (AKP) Lütfi İhsan Dağ.

Since 2004, the assistant of the mayor in charge of the foreign relations is Metin Edeer (MHP), which lives with Brussels since 1978 and turns over to Emirdağ only during the estival holidays.

Mayors of the communes and villages of the district of Emirdağ

Communes ( belediye )

Emirdağ: Lütfi İhsan Dağ (AKP); municipal elections 2004: AKP 60,58%, CHP 38,06%
Adayazı: Hulusi Altınok (AKP); municipal elections 2004: AKP 65,59%, CHP 32,69%
Aşağı Piribeyli: Mustafa Küçürek (AKP); municipal elections 2004: AKP 50,82%, MHP 49,18%
Bademli: Usuf Cerit (AKP); municipal elections 2004: AKP 55,07%, CHP 44,93%
Davulga: Kenan Balı (MHP); municipal elections 2004: MHP 51,20%, AKP 47,36%
Gömü: Hakkı Tekin (AKP); municipal elections 2004: AKP 80,43%, CHP 5,26%

Villages ( köy ) (there are 57 in all of them, only some are mentioned below)

Ablak: Akif Demir
Agılcık: Cengiz Çiftçi
Alibeyce: Talat Kurusu
Aşağı Aliçomak: Hilmi Yaman
Aşağı Kurudere: Metin Sürer
Avdan: Bekir Tepekaya
Aydın Yaka: Osman Güven
Bağlica: Ersin Çeliktaş
Balcam: Ersin Çeliktaş (the same one)
Baskonak: Hassan Yurday
Beyköy: Nihat Taşyürek
Beyören: Kadir Demirtaş
Burunarkaç: Turgut Taşçi

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Çatallı: Kadir Duran

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Demircili: Kadir Aktaş
Dereköy: Halil Kırca
Ekizce: Gürbüz Köycü

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Güveççi: Nuri Karakoç
Hamzahacili: Hüdaverdi Yıldırım

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Karacalar: Ali Nurettin Şahbaz

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Soğukkuyu: Muzaffer Pala
Suvermez: Hayati Akın

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Tez: Bayram Kökten
Türkmen: Salih Özçelik

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Veysel: Halil Sezer

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Yeniköy: Abdil Koç
Yusufağa: Yaşar Taşçi
Yüreğil: Süleyman Topal

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