Koçtepe () is a village in the

Cizre District Cizre District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. The seat of the district is the town of Cizre and the population was 155,182 in 2021. Settlements Cizre District contains no beldes, thirty-two villages, of which one is unpopul ...

Şırnak Province Şırnak Province ( tr, Şırnak ili, ku, Parêzgeha Şirnexê) is a province of Turkey in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. Şırnak Province was created in 1990, with areas that were formerly part of the Siirt and Mardin Provinces. It borders b ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The village is populated by

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

of the Omerkan tribe and had a population of 573 in 2021.

History

While the village was previously attached to the Nusaybin District in

Mardin Province Mardin Province ( tr, Mardin ili; ku, Parêzgeha Mêrdînê; ar, محافظة ماردين) is a province of Turkey with a population of 809,719 in 2017, slightly down from the population of 835,173 in 2000. Kurds form the majority of the popu ...

, it became attached to the Cizre District of the same province on 23 October 1929. In 1990, it was attached to the Cizre District of the newly established Şırnak Province.

References

{{Cizre District Villages in Cizre District Kurdish settlements in Şırnak Province