Kokyar

• Kök-yar, Kök Yar

From Uyghur كۆكيار (kökyar).

Kokyar

1. A township in Yutian, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2017, Richard Finney, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Xinjiang Police Launch Recruitment Drive Following Uyghur Knife Attack”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎:

     On Feb. 16, authorities in nearby Keriye (Yutian) county announced a move to add 254 additional auxiliary members to its police force, with 204 jobs reserved for ethnic Uyghurs and 50 spaces held for Han Chinese, local media reports said. Speaking to RFA, a police officer in Keriye’s Kokyar township confirmed the recruitment drive was under way. “More than 200 [auxiliary] policemen will be recruited soon to patrol the roads, streets, and neighborhoods day and night,” RFA’s source said. “They will also be stationed at various checkpoints to check people coming into the township and other townships in the county.”

2. A township in Kargilik, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1875, H. W. Bellew, Kashmir and Kashghar: A Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74‎, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 391:

     Next day we marched to Kokyar, twelve miles. Route west, across a sandy ridge two miles off, and then up the gully of the Kokyar river, which flows in a narrow winding valley from south to north, between high ridges of sand and gravel, to the town itself which is the capital of this district.

   • 1926, Albert von Le Coq, translated by Anna Barwell, Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan‎, George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 153:

     As it was already later in the year, we had chosen the winter route (zamistani) over Kokyar.

   • 1978, Hugh McLeave, A Borderline Case‎, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:

     Brodie lent only half an ear. He was eying the wall map, comparing it with what he had seen from the chopper. He picked out the three nearest towns—Yarkand, Karghalik, and Kokyar—running north to south. Everything inside a huge semicircle bounded on the west by the Yarkand River and the southeast by the Kunlun Mountains was shaded. That must be the barbed-wire zone guarded by the army. Kokyar lay inside with more than a hundred other villages and hamlets. In this sector a narrow swath marked in red ran northeast, broadening into a shape like the flyswatter Yao was turning in his fingers. Brodie had heard traffice last night, and the map showed a road from Yarkand through Karghalik and Kokyar to the frontier, obviously a military road taking heavy traffic. Yao had laid down his flyswatter and swiveled around to point to a dot slightly west of Kokyar. "We are here, if you are interested, Mr. Brodie," he murmured.

   • 2016 July 10, “Villagers evacuated after landslide kills 35 in China's Xinjiang”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on July 11, 2016:

     The landslide, brought on by unusually heavy rain, struck the village in Kokyar township in Yecheng county early on Wednesday morning.

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