Hakkâri is a province in the southeast corner of Turkey, located at the juncture of Iraq and Iran. The capital is Hakkâri. The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and has a population of 272,566 (2006 est). The province had a population of 236,581 in 2000. Kurds form the majority.
The province was created in 1936 out of part of Van Province. Its adjacent provinces are Şırnak to the west and Van to the north.

Christians from the Church of the East resided in the province until the First World War, which saw 50,000 Nestorian Assyrians killed. Survivors were forced to take refuge around Urmia in Persia and Dohuk in Iraq.

Districts

Hakkâri province is divided into 4 districts (capital district in bold):

* Çukurca
* Hakkâri
* Şemdinli
* Yüksekova
Hakkâri
Hakkâri is a city in the far southeast of Turkey. The name Hakkâri comes from the Aramaic Akkare because of its Assyrian indigenous population, meaning ‘farmers’. Today the city has a population of 58,145 (2000 census) and is the capital of Hakkâri Province.

Hakkâri is the site of Julamerk (also Julamerik, Colemerq, Çölemerik), in the 19th century an independent Chiefship in the mountains of Kurdistan, in the hands of local Kurdish emirs such as Nurullah Bey, long after the surrounding area had come under Ottoman control. The name was changed from Colemêrg to Hakkâri when the Ottoman rulers distributed parts of the area to Kurdish elites who were part of the Hakkâri tribe and appointed several of them to rule the region.

Today no Assyrians are left in Hakkari. All churches are empty, and the last residents fled last century to mainly Iraq due to persecution from muslim neighbours.

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