Yüksekova
Yüksekova
Municipality in Hakkâri Province, Turkey
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 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 84,800 in 2023.[6][7]
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]