Şemdinli
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Şemdinli (Template:Langx,[1] Template:Langx or Script error: No such module "Lang".[2]) is a town located in the Şemdinli District of Hakkari Province in Turkey and had a population of 18,220 in 2023.[3] The current mayor is Tahir Saklı from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), elected in 2019.[4]
The town is populated by Kurds of the Humaru and Zerzan Kurdish tribes and moreover of mixed tribal and non-tribal origin.[5]
Neighborhoods
Şemdinli is divided into the five neighborhoods of Beşevler, Karşıyaka, Moda, Yayla and Yeni.[6]
Kurdish-Turkish conflict
Conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state forces
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Investigations concerning the Şemdinli bombing trial were blocked by the military, and all the judges and prosecutor associated with the Şemdinli bookshop bombing case transferred from Van to other cities following a June 2007 decree.[8]
Clashes in 2012
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On 23 July 2012, Turkish security forces began a major security offensive, backed by airpower, against the PKK around Şemdinli. Interior minister, İdris Naim Şahin, explained that the forces were attempting to block the PKK's escape routes into northern Iraq, and that as many as 115 PKK fighters had been killed. Television news channel, Nergis Televizyonu (NTV), claimed that up to two thousand troops were involved in the operation. On 5 August 2012, PKK forces fired on a Turkish military post in the village of Gecimli, triggering clashes that killed 22 fighters, soldiers and village guards, and injuring 15 others, including five civilians. The military post was one of a number attacked in Hakkâri Province, although there were no reports of casualties in the other incidents.[9]
Population
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Climate
Şemdinli has a hot, dry-summer continental climate (Köppen: Dsa).
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References
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External links
- Today's Zaman, 16 April 2013, European court orders Turkey to pay 1.4 million euros over Şemdinli raid
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