Derecik, Hakkâri
Town in Hakkâri Province, Turkey
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Derecik (Kurdish: Rûbarok) is a municipality (belde) and the seat of Derecik District in Hakkâri Province of Turkey.[2] It is populated by Kurds of the Gerdî tribe and had a population of 13,220 in 2023.[1][3]
The municipality was depopulated in the 1990s during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.[4]
Neighborhoods
Derecik municipality is divided into the nine quarters of Merkez, Balkaya, Güney, Hacıbey, Orta, Üçyan, Gürmeşe, Rize and Vapurtepe.[2]
Population
Politics
AKP candidate Ekrem Çetinkaya won the mayorship in the 2019 local elections with 57.52% of the vote.[6]