Soke Region is a town and a large district of Aydin City in the Aegean Region of western Turkey, 54 km. south west of the city of Aydin, near the Aegean coast.
Settled since the C. BC, The region of Soke's inhabited by Greeks until 1426 when it's taken over by the Ottoman Turks as remaining capital of the Sanjak of Mentese.
During the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922) resistance in the area was led by one Cafer Efe, whose statue is in the town. See Efe for the background to this era.
Soke's settled with Turkish immigrants from Crete during the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s.