Onikişubat
District and municipality in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
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Onikişubat is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey.[2] Its area is 2,429 km2,[3] and its population is 453,730 (2022).[1] The district Onikişubat was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Kahramanmaraş, along with the new district Dulkadiroğlu.[4][5] It covers the western part of the agglomeration of Kahramanmaraş and the adjacent countryside. The name Kahramanmaraş is reserved for the metropolitan municipality.
Onikişubat | |
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District and municipality | |
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 Map showing Onikişubat District in Kahramanmaraş Province | |
  Onikişubat Location within Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°34′40″N 36°55′25″E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Kahramanmaraş |
Area | 2,429 km2 (938 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 453,730 |
| • Density | 186.8/km2 (483.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Area code | 0344 |
| Website | www |
"Onikişubat" means "12 February"; it refers to the date of recovery of Kahramanmaraş during the Turkish War of Independence in 1920.
History
It was created as a result of the division of the central district of Kahramanmaraş into two by the law number 6360 adopted by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 12 November 2012.[6]
2026 shooting
On 15 April 2026, a school shooting occurred at the Ayser Çalık Secondary School in the Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. İsa Aras Mersinli, a 13-year-old[a] student enrolled at the school, shot and killed 12 people and injured 13 more. Mersinli died from hypovolemic shock after sustaining a fatal knife injury while attempting to flee the scene.
The shooting occurred the day after a school shooting in the Siverek district of Şanlıurfa Province.[8] It is the deadliest school shooting in the history of Turkey.[9]
Composition
There are 141 neighbourhoods in Onikişubat District:[10]
- 5 Nisan
- Abdülhamidhan
- Afşar
- Ağcalı
- Akçakoyunlu
- Akif Inan
- Altınova
- Avcılar
- Avgasır
- Ayşepınarı
- Barbaros
- Beşbağlar
- Beşen
- Binevler
- Boğaziçi
- Bulutoğlu
- Büyüksır
- Çağırgan
- Çağlayan
- Çakırdere
- Çakırlar
- Çamlıbel
- Çamlıca
- Çamlık
- Celilli
- Çevrepınar
- Ceyhan
- Çokran
- Cüceli
- Çukurhisar
- Cumhuriyet
- Dadağlı
- Demrek
- Dereboğazı
- Döngel
- Döngele
- Dönüklü
- Dumlupınar
- Ertuğrul Gazi
- Fatih
- Fatmalı
- Gayberli
- Gedemen
- Gölpınar
- Hacıağlar
- Hacıbayramveli
- Hacıbudak
- Hacıibrahimuşağı
- Hacılar
- Hacımustafa
- Hacınınoğlu
- Hartlap
- Hasancıklı
- Haydarbey
- Hayrullah
- Hürriyet
- Ilıca
- İsmailli
- İstiklal
- Kale
- Kalekaya
- Kapıkaya
- Karacaoğlan
- Karadere
- Karamanlı
- Kavlaklı
- Kaynar
- Kazım Karabekir
- Kerimli
- Kertmen
- Kılavuzlu
- Kısıklı
- Kızıldamlar
- Kızılseki
- Köseli
- Köşürge
- Kozcağız
- Küçüksır
- Kumarlı
- Kumaşır
- Kümperli
- Kurtlar
- Kürtül
- Kurucaova
- Maarif
- Mağralı
- Maksutlu
- Malik Ejder
- Mercimektepe
- Mevlana
- Mimar Sinan
- Molla Gürani
- Muratlı
- Necip Fazıl
- Önsen
- Orhangazi
- Oruç Reis
- Öşlü
- Osman Gazi
- Özdenören
- Öztürk
- Payamlı
- Piri Reis
- Rahmacılar
- Reyhanlı
- Saçaklızade
- Sadıklı
- Şahinkayası
- Sarıçukur
- Sarıgüzel
- Sarımollalı
- Saygılı
- Şazibey
- Şehit Abdullah Çavuş
- Şehitevliya
- Selçuklu
- Selimiye
- Serintepe
- Suçatı
- Süleymanlı
- Süleymanşah
- Suluyayla
- Tavşantepe
- Tekerek
- Tekir
- Topçalı
- Uludaz
- Üngüt
- Vadi
- Yamaçtepe
- Yavşanova
- Yenicekale
- Yenidemir
- Yeniyapan
- Yeşilyurt
- Yirmiikigün
- Yolyanı
- Yunusemre
- Yürükselim
- Yusuflar
- Zeytindere