Güçlükonak ( ku, Basan)' is a town and seat of the Güçlükonak District in

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 ...

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

. The town 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 Ira ...

of the Harunan tribe and had a population of 4,462 in 2021.

Neighborhoods

The town is divided into the neighborhoods of Bağlar and Yeni Mahalle.

History

In 1995 as the Şırnak Province was governed in a state of emergency, it was the scene of the in which 11 men lost their lives. As of January 2020, no person has been charged for the massacre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guclukonak Populated places in Şırnak Province Kurdish settlements in Turkey