Karacalar is a village in the Emirdağ District, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey.

In 2000 his son Mustafa Öztürk was elected as a municipal councillor in the Belgian commune of Schaerbeek.

[4][5][6] The village head Nurettin Shahbaz, who was in charge for four mandates between 1984 and 2014, lived and worked himself in Belgium in 1973-1974 as a toiler in a cement factory in Ottignies.

[7] The Shahbaz family is well known in the Turkish neighbourhood in Brussels (Schaerbeek and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) as the Dede of the Karacalar Alevis has traditionally been one of his members.

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