Ortaköy, Mut

Ortaköy
Neighbourhood
Ortaköy Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 36°41′N 33°25′E
Country	Turkey
Province	Mersin
District	Mut
Elevation	185 m (607 ft)
Population  (2022)	227
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	33600
Area code	0324

Ortaköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Mut, Mersin Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 227 (2022).[2] It is on the state highway D.715. The distance to Mut is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) and to Mersin is 165 kilometres (103 mi). Main economic activity is agriculture. Population of this settlement are from Abdal origin and they are Alevi Muslims.[3][4]

History

Ortaköy (formerly Kıpti) is one of the villages established in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. As a matter of fact, according to the report submitted to the Ottoman Government on the administrative structure of Mut, dated December 2, 1913, Ortaköy is a neighbourhood with 24 households, a population of 160 (73 women, 87 men) and registered as “Kıpti” affiliated to the central district of Mut. Village people are from Abdal origin[5] who migrated from Khorasan in the Middle Ages to Anatolia.[4][6][7]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1913 160 —     1935 71 −3.63% 1940 147 +15.67% 1950 81 −5.79% 1970 127 +2.27% 1975 218 +11.41% 1980 263 +3.82% 1985 287 +1.76%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1990 276 −0.78% 1997 180 −5.92% 2000 198 +3.23% 2007 193 −0.36% 2012 228 +3.39% 2017 239 +0.95% 2022 227 −1.02%
Source: Population censuses (1913-2000)[4] and TÜIK (2007-2022)[2]

According to the Ottoman documents, Ortaköy, was known as "Kıpti" or "Mutkiptiyan", had a population of 160 people (73 women, 87 men) in 24 households in 1913. It is noteworthy that the village population followed an unstable course in the Republic period. The population, which was 71 in 1935, increased to 147 in 1940; Then it started to decline and fell to 117 in 1945. The highest population figure that can be seen was 287 people in 1985; but it started to decline again in the following years.[4]

Geography

It is 163 km from the center of Mersin and 3 km from the center of Mut. It is located on a flat land on the Karaman asphalt, north of Mut. The whitewashed houses of Ortaköy are clustered together on the plain at the base of a small hill to the right of the highway. Among the houses, fruit trees such as figs, plums, pomegranates and mulberries draw attention. The small hill to the north of the village is almost completely bare except for a few bushes on it. The hills to the south are covered with sparse pine trees and bushes.[4]

References

1. Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
2. "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜIK. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
3. "Nişanyan Yeradları". nisanyanmap.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
4. "Ortaköy - Mutkiptiyanı". Mersin Mut Haberleri (in Turkish). 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
5. Marushiakova, Elena (2016). Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Veselin Popov. Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-319-41057-9. OCLC 965343902.
6. Ethnic groups in the Republic of Turkey. Peter A. Andrews, Rüdiger Benninghaus. Wiesbaden: L. Reichert. 1989. ISBN 3-88226-418-7. OCLC 20607251.
7. Yılgür, Egemen (2015). "Tarihsel Perspektiften Peripatetik ve AvcıToplayıcı Stratejilerin Geçiş". Üsküdar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 1 (1): 213–234. doi:10.32739/uskudarsbd.1.1.16. ISSN 2459-0223. S2CID 188048728.