Hakkâri is a city in the far southeast of Turkey. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches The name Hakkâri comes from the Aramaic Akkare (ܐܟܪ̈ܐ) because of its Assyrian indigenous population, meaning 'farmers'. Aramaic is a Semitic language with Today the city has a population of 58,145 (2000 census) and is the capital of Hakkâri Province. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Hakkâri is a province in the southeast corner of Turkey, located at the juncture of Iraq and Iran. [1]
Hakkâri is the site of Julamerk (also Julamerik, Colemerq, Çölemerik), in the 19th century an independent Chiefship in the mountains of Kurdistan, in the hands of local Kurdish emirs such as Nurullah Bey, long after the surrounding area had come under Ottoman control. History See also History of the Kurdish people Ancient period See also Hurrians, Guti, Mannaeans, Medes The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish [2] The name was changed from Colemêrg to Hakkâri when the Ottoman rulers distributed parts of the area to Kurdish elites who were part of the Hakkâri tribe and appointed several of them to rule the region. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Today no Assyrians are left in Hakkari. All its churches are empty, and the last residents fled last century to mainly Iraq due to persecution from Muslim neighbours.