Cevizağacı (, , ) is a village in the

Beytüşşebap District Beytüşşebap District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. In 2023, the district had a population of 16,056. The seat of the district is the town of Beytüşşebap. Its area is 1,647 km2. Settlements Beytüşşebap Distric ...

Şırnak Province Şırnak Province (, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in Turkey in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. Şırnak Province was created in 1990, with areas that were formerly part of the Siirt Province, Siirt, Hakkâri Province, Hakkâri and Mardin ...

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. The village is 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 ...

who adhere to the

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and had a population of 79 in 2023. Cevizağacı is situated at the foot of the Kato mountain.

History

The village was populated by Assyrians but abandoned by the 1990s when the whole population bar, the

muhtar Muhtar also spelled "Mihtar" or "Mitar" is a given name and a surname. Notable persons with that name include: Persons with the given name * Muhtar Kent (born 1952), Turkish American businessman * Ahmet Muhtar Merter (died 1959), Turkish freedom ...

migrated to

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. Three families had by the early 2010s resettled in the village. In 2019, it was reported that eight families had returned to the village. In August 2022, Mamxûran

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 ...

from neighboring villages returned land in the village to the returning Assyrians peacefully after having seized the land after its abandonment.

Population

Population history from 2007 to 2023:

History

Population

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