Ayranlı () is a depopulated village in the

Şemdinli District Şemdinli District is a district in the Hakkâri Province of Turkey. The district had a population of 44,742 in 2023 with the town of Şemdinli as its seat. Its area is 1,209 km2. The district was established in 1936. Part of the district wa ...

Hakkâri Province Hakkâri Province (, ; ), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. Its area is 7,095 km2, and its population is 287,625 (2023). The current Governor is Ali Çelik. The province encompasses ...

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, on the border with

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. The village was previously populated by

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of the Herkî tribe. The

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of Üzümkıran () is attached to the village.

History

The village had a population of 794 in 1967 but was evacuated and burned in 1993 by the state, during the

Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish nationalism, Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the pre ...

. At the 1997 census, it had no population. Destroyed homes were remade into five police stations and, as of 2022, the local population were still prevented from returning to the village.

References

{{Şemdinli District Villages in Şemdinli District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province Former populated places in Turkey