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The Akçatekir district of the Pozantı district in Adana is known as the most preferred plateau by the people of Adana during the summer months due to its cool climate. Although the Pozantı district to which it is affiliated has a population of 20,000, Akçatekir’s population in the summer months exceeds 100,000 with 33,000 70 houses. In Akçatekir, which is among the indispensable plateaus of the summer months due to its climate and natural beauties, the population decreased to 700 people with the return of the plateau people at the end of October. However, this number has changed this year due to the pandemic.
FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF AKÇATEKİR
Highland, home to thousands of citizens due to the coronavirus outbreak in Turkey, did not return to the city this year. After the start of the normalization process, the population of the Akçatekir district increased to more than 10,000 for the first time in its history, following the increase in cases and curfews that cover weekends in the field of coronavirus measures . The Adana Metropolitan Municipality did not cut the water that cut off the neighborhood against frost in recent years due to the increase in population this year.
ADANA’S LARGEST PLATEAU
Pozantı Mayor Mustafa Çay stated that the district’s neighborhoods are the center of the Adana Plateau, and that there are 33,707 houses in Akçatekir district and the population exceeded 100,000 in the summer months. Stating that Akçatekir is the largest plateau in Adana, Mayor Çay said: “Our Pozantı district, along with its center and towns, has a population of 20 thousand according to TÜİK data. In our Akçatekir district, our population reaches 200 thousand in the summer months. Normally, our migrants, with the opening of the schools on September 15, most of our citizens whose children were students returned to the city. Our citizens over 65 who stayed on the plateau were returning at the end of October. Our Metropolitan Municipality has been cutting off the water since December to prevent cold and frost. “We did not have our municipality cut off the water when 10 thousand people did not return to the city this year.
‘CORONAVIRUS ORDERED THE CITIZEN TO BUILD THE HOUSE WITH YAYLA’
Saying that after the pandemic process began, people saw that life in apartments was difficult and that the buildings were a prison, President Çay said: “Therefore, single-family houses with gardens became a center of attraction. In Pozantı, this attraction was positively affected. “We signed building licenses. Many people in Adana are drawn to building houses in the highlands in places like Pozanti. “
WINTER POPULATION INCREASED BY 15 TIMES PER YEAR
Stating that there were security personnel and villagers staying in villas only in the winter season of previous years, President Çay said: “In previous years, the population of Akçatekir was 700 to 800 people in winter. This year, we see that those with a plateau house come with the effect of restrictions. Tens of thousands of people have never been seen in Akçatekir during these months until now ”.
Esat Öztürk (23), who claimed that they did not open their markets due to the lack of citizens in the previous winter months, said: “There are currently 10 thousand people. “We opened our market for the first time in winter,” he said.
Bekir Yılmaz, who has been operating a bakery for 30 years, said that he sells very little bread in the winter season, but this year his business has increased because the mountaineers do not return home.
‘I GO BACK TO KORON WHEN I’M FINISHED’
Abdullah Aktaş, 57, said that he returns to the city center on October 15 of each year before the pandemic: “I did not return this year because the cities are very populated due to the pandemic. Whenever the coronavirus passes, I will return to the city. “I’m sure there are thousands of people who think like me,” he said.
