Bağlar () is a 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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. The village is populated by

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of the Humaru and Zerzan tribes and had a population of 786 in 2023. Bağlar has the nine

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 Çamlıca (), Güzelkaya (), Meşeli (), Turi (), Moşe (), Çem (), Rüzgarlı (), Tuva and Zorgeçit () attached to it.

History

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family of the

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order whose leader

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Sayyid Taha I gained influence after the defeat of

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in 1847, by inciting violence against local

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. The son of Sheikh Taha,

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was one of the most influential

leaders in the early 20th century by inciting the first nationalist Kurdish uprising against the

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. Today, the village is populated by an unrelated Kurdish family as the land was confiscated by the central government after the uprising.

Population

Population history from 1997 to 2023:

References

{{Şemdinli District Villages in Şemdinli District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province