Gündeş () 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 is populated by

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of the Kaşuran tribe and had a population of 2,376 in 2023. The six

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 Boylu (), Köprülü (), Güzeldere (), Ormanlı (), Çiçekli () and Çimenli () are attached to Cevizli. Boylu and Çiçekli are unpopulated.

Ormanlı

Ormanlı () is a hamlet which historically was an Assyrian village and part of the lower Tyari district. Between 1850 and 1877, the village had ninety Assyrian families who were members of

Syriac Christianity Syriac Christianity (, ''Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto'' or ''Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā'') is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative Christian theology, theological writings and traditional Christian liturgy, liturgies are expressed in ...

including one priest in 1850 and 12 priests in 1877. There was moreover a church in the village during this period. The village was destroyed during

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 ...

. The hamlet is populated by Kurds of Alan and Êzdînan tribes today and had a population of 438 in 2022.

Population

Population history of the village from 2007 to 2023:

References

{{Çukurca District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province Villages in Çukurca District Historic Assyrian communities in Hakkâri Province Places of the Sayfo