Çukurca
Çukurca
Town in Hakkâri Province, Turkey
Çukurca (Kurdish: Çāl,[2] Syriac: ܛܝܵܪܹܐ, romanized: Ṭyārē, Lishanid Noshan: גיאלא)[3] is a municipality (belde) and seat of Çukurca District in Hakkâri Province of Turkey.[4] The city is populated by Kurds of the Ertoşî and Pinyanişî tribes and had a population of 1,0252 in 2023.[1][5] The mayor is Ensar Dündar from Justice and Development Party since 2019.[6]
Çukurca is divided into the three neighborhoods of Cumhuriyet, Emirşaban and Yeşilçeşme.[4]
Northeastern Jewish Aramaic-speaking Jews lived here historically; most fled during Sayfo, and the last remaining members of the community emigrated to Israel in 1951.[7]
Population history from 2007 to 2023:[1]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7,033 | — |
| 2012 | 8,247 | +17.3% |
| 2017 | 8,547 | +3.6% |
| 2022 | 7,485 | −12.4% |
| 2023 | 10,252 | +37.0% |
Çukurca has a hot-summer subtype (Köppen: Dsa) of the humid continental climate.
| Climate data for Çukurca | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.1 (39.4) |
5.7 (42.3) |
10.2 (50.4) |
16.0 (60.8) |
23.3 (73.9) |
29.9 (85.8) |
34.5 (94.1) |
34.4 (93.9) |
30.4 (86.7) |
22.6 (72.7) |
13.6 (56.5) |
6.4 (43.5) |
19.3 (66.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.0 (32.0) |
1.3 (34.3) |
5.5 (41.9) |
10.9 (51.6) |
17.3 (63.1) |
23.0 (73.4) |
27.4 (81.3) |
27.2 (81.0) |
23.1 (73.6) |
16.2 (61.2) |
8.6 (47.5) |
2.5 (36.5) |
13.6 (56.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
0.9 (33.6) |
5.9 (42.6) |
11.3 (52.3) |
16.2 (61.2) |
20.3 (68.5) |
20.0 (68.0) |
15.8 (60.4) |
9.9 (49.8) |
3.7 (38.7) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
8.0 (46.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 111 (4.4) |
146 (5.7) |
142 (5.6) |
131 (5.2) |
59 (2.3) |
2 (0.1) |
1 (0.0) |
1 (0.0) |
3 (0.1) |
41 (1.6) |
98 (3.9) |
108 (4.3) |
843 (33.2) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[8] | |||||||||||||
- "Address Based Population Registration System Results". Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
- Fassberg, Steven E. (2010). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa. Leiden: Brill. p. 1. ISBN 9789004176829.
[T]he village is so named because it is located in a geophysical depression
- Maclean, Arthur John (1895). Grammar of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 241.
- "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 215.
- "Hakkari Çukurca Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
- Fassberg, Steven E. (2010). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa. Leiden: Brill. pp. 3–4. ISBN 9789004176829.
- "Climate:Çukurca". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
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