Yüksekova

Yüksekova (Kurdish: Gever;[2] Syriac: ܓܵܘܵܪ, romanized: Gāwār[3]) is a municipality (belde) in the Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province in Turkey and is the largest city in the whole province.[4] The city is populated by Kurds of different tribal backgrounds including non-tribal. The city also has a large ethnic Turkish population for the region and historically had a large Assyrian Christian population[5] although, the Assyrian share of the population used to be much larger than it is today due to the Ottoman Empire's genocide of Assyrian Christians. Yüksekova had a population of 72,745 in 2022.[6][7]

Yüksekova
گەڤەر / Gever (Kurdish)
ܓܵܘܵܪ / Gāwār (Syriac)
Municipality
Yüksekova in 2011, near the Ihsaniye Mosque and city center
Yüksekova in 2011, near the Ihsaniye Mosque and city center
Yüksekova is located in Turkey
Yüksekova
Yüksekova
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.569°N 44.283°E / 37.569; 44.283
CountryTurkey
ProvinceHakkâri
DistrictYüksekova
Population
 (2022)[1]
72,745
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)
"Yuksekova" redirects here. For the district of Hakkâri Province named after the municipality, see Yüksekova District.

Remziye Yaşar (Peoples' Democratic Party) was elected mayor in 2019.[8] She was arrested in October 2019 over terrorism-related charges and replaced by a trustee appointed by the central government.[9]

Name

Yüksekova was historically known as Dize meaning fortress in Kurdish.[10]

The word Yüksekova means 'plateau' and is a Turkification of the original name Gever which in Kurdish means 'raised meadow'. In Armenian, however, the word refers to an administrative unit such as district of province, while the word refers to Zoroastrians in Persian. For Muslims, Gavar means infidel and refers to all non-Muslims.[10]

Neighborhoods

The city is divided into the ten neighborhoods of Cumhuriyet, Dize, Esentepe, Esenyurt, Eskikışla, Güngor, Ipek, Mezarlık, Yeni and Yeşildere.[11]

Demographics

Population history from 1997 to 2022:[12][1]

Population
YearPop.±% p.a.
199754,739—    
200759,410+0.82%
201268,230+2.81%
201769,346+0.33%
202272,745+0.96%

References
  1. "Address Based Population Registration System Results". Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  2. Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 55.
  3. Payne Smith, Robert (1879–1901). Thesaurus Syriacus (in Latin). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 688.
  4. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. "Kaza Gavar / Gever / Tergavar / Mergavar / Dize". Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  6. Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 218.
  7. "Address Based Population Registration System Results". Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  8. "Hakkari Yüksekova Seçim Sonuçları: 31 Mart 2019 Hakkari Yüksekova Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Sözcü (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  9. "Trustees appointed as mayors in southeastern province, districts". Hürriyet Daily News. 18 October 2019.
  10. "Kaza Gavar / Gever / Tergavar / Mergavar / Dize". Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  11. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  12. "1997 Population Count" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Statistical Institute. 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 October 2022.
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