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About Çığlı
Çığlı (Kurdish: Aşut; Syriac: ܐܫܝܬܐ, romanized: Āshīṯā) is a village in Hakkâri Province in southeastern Turkey. It is located in the district of Çukurca District and the historical region of Hakkari. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kaşuran tribe and had a population of 1,911 in 2023.
From the Wikipedia article Çığlı, Çukurca (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
The church of Mar Saba was constructed in the 4th century. Ashitha was formerly exclusively inhabited by Assyrians, and was the centre of the lower Tyari district, and a rayyat (vassal) of the ashiret (free men) Tyari clan. It was formed by an aggregation of the villages of Jemane, Jemane Tahtaita, Mata d'Umra-Hatibet, Isrur, and Merwita. The village served as one of two places in the Hakkari region designated by the Patriarch of the Church of the East as a location for the resolution of disputes under the arbitration of a malik. In the village, there were churches of Mar Gewargis and Mar Saba.
A large mission station was built at Ashitha by the American Protestant missionary Asahel Grant in September 1842. By the end of the month, he had also built a school with 20 pupils, and eight mule loads of Syriac books had arrived from Mosul. The size and position of the mission station atop an isolated hill, commanding the whole valley, unnerved Kurds and Turkish authorities, and sparked a series of events that led to the Kurdish massacres in Hakkari in 1843. Although Ashitha was spared after the village clergymen shamasha (deacon) Hinno and kasha (priest) Jindo had written to the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg to pledge their allegiance and support, a number of villagers fled and took refuge in the village of Mūsākān in the Barwari Bala region.
From the History section of Çığlı, Çukurca on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Hakkari Yüksekova Airport (YKO) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 80 km away.
- Gündeş 7 km east, about 7 min by car
- Ortaköy 8 km west, about 8 min by car
- Taşbaşı 12 km northeast, about 12 min by car
- Oymakaya 17 km northwest, about 17 min by car
- Çukurca 23 km east, about 23 min by car
- Dağdibi 25 km west, about 25 min by car
- Yemişli 27 km west, about 27 min by car
- Basaran 28 km northwest, about 28 min by car
- Hakkâri 43 km northeast, about 43 min by car
- Silopi 81 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
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