Şemdinli

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Town in Hakkâri Province, Turkey

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::summary Town in Hakkâri Province, Turkey ::

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Field	Value
type	municipality
name	Şemdinli
province	Hakkâri
district	Şemdinli
population_total	18220
population_as_of	2023
image_skyline	Şemdinli şehir merkezi, 2013.jpg
image_caption	Image of Şemdinli
website
coordinates
population_footnotes
leader_party	AKP
leader_name	Tahir Saklı
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Şemdinli (, or Shemsdīn) is a town located in the Şemdinli District of Hakkari Province in Turkey and had a population of 18,220 in 2023.

The town is populated by Kurds of the Humaru and Zerzan Kurdish tribes and moreover of mixed tribal and non-tribal origin.

Neighborhoods

Şemdinli is divided into the five neighborhoods of Beşevler, Karşıyaka, Moda, Yayla and Yeni.

Kurdish-Turkish conflict

Conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state forces

A bomb exploded in Şemdinli town centre on November 1, 2005. It was officially attributed to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish militant group. On November 9 one man was killed in a grenade attack on a local bookshop. The suspects of this attack, however, were caught in the act by bystanders. They were said to be members of a Turkish Gendarmerie unit, JITEM. The resulting investigation developed into a major political issue in Turkey in the first half of 2006. After a lengthy legal process the three suspects were eventually sentenced to 39 years.

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.

Clashes in 2012

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.

Population

Population history from 1997 to 2023: |1997|11879 |2007|11727|2010|11211|2015|14854|2020|15504|title=Population|align=none|2023|18220}}

Climate

Şemdinli has a hot, dry-summer continental climate (Köppen: Dsa).

|location = Şemdinli |metric first = yes |single line = yes |Jan high C = 1.3 |Feb high C = 2.9 |Mar high C = 7.9 |Apr high C = 14.8 |May high C = 21.4 |Jun high C = 27.5 |Jul high C = 31.7 |Aug high C = 31.9 |Sep high C = 27.9 |Oct high C = 21.2 |Nov high C = 12.6 |Dec high C = 3.7 |year high C = |Jan mean C = -2.5 |Feb mean C = -1.4 |Mar mean C = 3.4 |Apr mean C = 9.7 |May mean C = 15.2 |Jun mean C = 20.8 |Jul mean C = 24.7 |Aug mean C = 24.7 |Sep mean C = 20.4 |Oct mean C = 14.7 |Nov mean C = 7.5 |Dec mean C = 0.1 |year mean C = 11.4 |Jan low C = -6.2 |Feb low C = -5.6 |Mar low C = -1.0 |Apr low C = 4.6 |May low C = 9.1 |Jun low C = 14.1 |Jul low C = 17.7 |Aug low C = 17.5 |Sep low C = 13.0 |Oct low C = 8.2 |Nov low C = 2.5 |Dec low C = -3.5 |year low C = |Jan precipitation mm = 71 |Feb precipitation mm = 81 |Mar precipitation mm = 93 |Apr precipitation mm = 101 |May precipitation mm = 55 |Jun precipitation mm = 11 |Jul precipitation mm = 3 |Aug precipitation mm = 2 |Sep precipitation mm = 4 |Oct precipitation mm = 27 |Nov precipitation mm = 61 |Dec precipitation mm = 64 |year precipitation mm = |source 1 = Climate-Data.org{{cite web|url=http://en.climate-data.org/location/15651/|title = Climate:Şemdinli|accessdate = 11 April 2014 |publisher = Climate-Data.org}}

References

Avcıkıran, Adem. (2009). "Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî".
Maclean, Arthur John. (1901). "Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac".
Şafak, Yeni. (2019-12-15). "Hakkari Şemdinli Seçim Sonuçları – Şemdinli Yerel Seçim Sonuçları".
(1989). "Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey".
"Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri".
(2006-07-19). "Court says senior officers involved in Şemdinli bombing". [[Turkish Daily News]].
[http://hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/turkey0707/4.htm Retrograde Human Rights Trends and Stagnation of the Human Rights Reform Process], 4th part of the [[Human Rights Watch]] July 2007 report titled "[http://hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/turkey0707/ Turkey: Human Rights Concerns in the Lead up to July Parliamentary Elections]".
(5 August 2012). "Turkish Troops Kill 115 Kurdish Rebels as Offensive Blocks Escape Routes to Iraq". The Guardian.
(1999). "1997 Population Count". [[Turkish Statistical Institute]].
"Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". [[Turkish Statistical Institute.

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