Yenikoy

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Yenikoy (common name Yenikoy Koyu, pop. 780 in 2000) is a small village (30.000km²) in the Region of Afyonkarahisar in Turkey. It is traditional Anatolian village. Its local government is a Muhtarlik. The head of Local Government is Abdil Koc (as of 2006)

[edit] History

Memorial sculpture for the Greek people who fled Yenikoy in 1924 and came to Pieria, where their sons and daughters live today.

The village was established by Turkish emigrants from Republic of Nagorno-Karabagh; they were emigrated in the Ottoman Empire time and lived first in Davulga. After movings Sons of Alhan to valley of Yenikoy. Became yenikoy as a town.

Yenikoy was home for many Greek people to 1920s. In 1924 following the dramatic events in the War of Minor Asia, Greek people fled their village and came to stay in Kondariotissa, a town in Pieria municipality in Central Macedonia, Greece. There a memorial sculpture was erected in the square of a part of the village, concerning the immigration of Greeks from Yenikoy (Νεοχώρι Χηλής in Greek) to Kondariotissa.

It is notable that although more than 80 years have gone by since the immigration, a lot of people in Kondariotissa visit Yenikoy and are met with the friendship and hospitability of the residents and the local authorities of the turkish town.

[edit] External links

• Yenikoy Info Page

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