Çağlayan (, ) is a village in the

Çukurca District Çukurca District is a district in the Hakkâri Province of Turkey. The district had a population of 17,734 in 2023 with the town of Çukurca as its seat. Its area is 725 km2. And Çukurca has border with iraqi Kurdistan at the south point o ...

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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. The village has been depopulated since the 1990s. The

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

of Küçükköy () and Tepecik () are attached to the village.

History

The village was formerly populated by

Assyrians Assyrians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia. Modern Assyrians share descent directly from the ancient Assyrians, one of the key civilizations of Mesopotamia. While they are distinct from ot ...

and located in the Raikan district. It consisted of 20 families, one priest and four churches in 1850. In 1877, the town had 20 families, one priest and two churches. The village was subsequently settled by

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

of the Ertoşî tribe after

Sayfo The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian people, Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan province by Ottoman Army ...

. In 1994, the village was forcibly evacuated by the

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. The village was subsequently declared a forbidden zone and the locals, who were dispersed to surrounding areas, were not allowed to return. In 1998, four Iraqi jets flew near the village and bombed the area. The bombings caused no casualties.

Population

The village has been unpopulated since the 1990s.

References

{{Çukurca District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province Historic Assyrian communities in Hakkâri Province Villages in Çukurca District Former populated places in Turkey