Founding family · Karabağlar tribe
Çotuk
Founding facilitator family
The Çotuk family descends from Çotuk Ahmet Efendi, the local figure whose invitation brought the 94 Karabağlar households to settle on the Durayda land in 1907. The family's central role in the village's founding is its defining mark in oral tradition.
Key facts
- Çotuk Ahmet Efendi (~1907) — discovered and invited migrants to the Durayda land
- Kadir Çotuk — muhtar 1962-1963
- Abdurrahim Çotuk — muhtar 1968
Related pages
- • Turkish version of this family page (photos and oral-history detail)
- • All 54 founding families
- • Deutsche Version