Yenikent, Gerze

Yenikent is a village in Gerze District of Sinop Province, Turkey. Its population is 839. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. It is on Turkish state highway D.010 which connects Sinop to Samsun. Distance to Gerze is. The former name of the settlement refers to people who escaped from Georgia during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). The settlement was declared a seat of township in 1990. But because of emigration to cities the population of the town has since been decreased.