Geography

Yeşiltepe at 36°51′N 34°54′E is a town in Tarsus

Tarsus

Tarsus may refer to:*Tarsus , a cluster of articulating bones in each foot** Tarsometatarsus, a fusion of the tarsus and metatarsus mainly found in birds...

 district of Mersin Province. It is about the half way from Tarsus to Mediterranean sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 coast being 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of the coast and 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Tarsus in the plains of Çukurova

Çukurova

Çukurova , historically known as Cilicia, is a geographic, economic and cultural region in south-central Turkey, covering the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay...

. Karabucak Forest

Karabucak Forest

- Geography :The forest is at the south of Tarsus city in Mersin Province. The center of the forest is at about . The distance to Tarsus is and to Mersin is . There are two sections in the forest...

 is slightly at the north. The population is 2328 as of 2010

History

No document exists about the deep history of the settlement. But probably before the project of Karabucak forest during the republican era, it was only a small village because of the marshes around the village which made the otherwise fertile plains unarable. After the World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 the village (then known as Çatalkeli) was occupied by the French army

French Army

The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre , is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.As of 2010, the army employs 123,100 regulars, 18,350 part-time reservists and 7,700 Legionnaires. All soldiers are professionals, following the suspension of conscription, voted in...

. After the treaty of Ankara (1921)

Treaty of Ankara (1921)

The Ankara Agreement was signed on October 20, 1921 between France and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey...

and the project of Karabucak forest, the population of the village began to increase. The name of the village was changed to Çataltepe in 1965 and to Çatalkuyu after a merger with another settlement. In 1989, the village was declared a township and renamed as Yeşiltepe.

Economy

The town enjoys tripple cropping income. Main produts are vegetables such as leek, canbbage and tomato. Water melon is another important crop.