Dağlıca, Yüksekova

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Dağlıca ( kurd. OREMAR ) is a village and a main town in the district of Bucak Yüksekova the Turkish province of Hakkari. Dağlıca located in Southeastern Anatolia, at 1,500 meters above sea level, about 52 km south-west of Yüksekova, near the Iraqi border.

The former name of the village was Oramar. This name is possibly Aramaic origin. The region was the settlement area of Nestorian Christians. In the region took place in 1930 the uprising of Oramar instead.

Dağlıca located in the high mountains. The roads are impassable three to four months a year. Furthermore, the population suffers from the mining of the way. In the village in 2007 earned about 60 men living as village guards.

In Bucak Dağlıca came and there is fierce fighting between security forces and guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK ). In 2007, during a raid by about 150 PKK fighters on a border barracks 12 soldiers killed and eight were hijacked. On the part of the PKK, there were 34 deaths. In 2010 it came to fighting.

In 2009 the village had 816 and the entire Bucak 4,303 inhabitants. The village includes the hamlets (Turkish mezra ) Akar, Bozkaya, Genişdere, İncirlik, Ortaklar, Üçkardeş and Yerkaya.

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