Ovacık (Kurdish: Pulur, Ottoman Turkish: پلور, romanized: Pulur,[1]) is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Ovacık District in Tunceli Province, Turkey.

[3][4] Its name is derived from a small plain between the Munzur and Mercan mountains (ova meaning plain).

[5] It was the only town to elect a communist mayor in 2014 Turkish local elections, Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, member of the Communist Party of Turkey.

He made public transport free of charge and in 2017 he opened a municipal agricultural cooperative that produced chickpeas, beans, and honey and according to Maçoğlu gave work to 250 people.

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