Kulu
Kulu is a district of Konya Province.
It is a town whose history dates back to the Polished Stone Age and has lived through the Chalcolithic, Old Bronze, Hittite, Phrygian, Galatian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. The district takes its name from its founder, Kulu Bey. Kuluboğlu is a nomadic ruler from the Afyonkarahisar-Karabakh region.
It gained municipality status in 1923 and district status in 1954. The first mayor of Kulu was İsmail Efendi Özbaran. Mehmet Yıldız, the grandson of İsmail Hakkı Efendi, was elected Mayor of Kulu for two terms between 1968-1977.
A large Kululu community lives in Sweden. The name of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who allowed the first Kululu migrant workers to settle in Sweden in 1965 and died in an assassination in 1986, was given to the only "green park" of the district built in 1972 by the former mayor of Kulu, Mehmet Yıldız.
