Shekak

The Schikak also Schekak, Schakkak or ski Kakan is one of the largest Kurdish tribes in Iran's West Azerbaijan province and adjacent areas in eastern Turkey. This tribe live around the city of Maku and from there south to Urmia.

They speak a dialect of Kurmanji, which is called Schakaki, and are Sunni faith. Their number in Iran was 4400 households in 1960. The number of Schikak in Turkey is smaller. The Schikak are often confused with the türkisierten tribe of Schikaghi (also known as Schakaki ) from Tabriz.

The Schikak consist of many clans and families, the families of the ' Awdoǐ and the Kardar hold the tribal leadership.

History

According to their oral tradition, the Schikak have emigrated in the 17th century from Diyarbakır and were located west of Lake Urmia down. They displaced the trunk of the Dumbuli. The first known tribal leader was Ismail Agha, who died in 1816 and whose grave is on the river Naslu. His grandson Jafar Agha was executed as a bandit 1905 in Tabriz. Jafar's brother Simko became the new leader and began a struggle against the Iranian government for an independent Kurdistan. This Simko was also responsible for massacres before and during the First World War on Christians in the region of Urmia. Simko died in 1930 and his place was Amr Agha. Later, he took part with a few hundred fighters to the Republic of Mahabad, which was founded in Mahabad in 1946 by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Amr Agha himself was a member of that party. But when the Republic collapsed, the Schikak arranged with the Iranian government. This attitude remained loyal to the government in the trunk for the next decades. So also in 1979. According to the Islamic Revolution, when by the power vacuum in western Iran rebelled Kurdish parties such as the KDP -I and the Komalah against Khomeini Few Schikak members involved thereto, while the tribal leader Tahir Agha arranged with the new rulers.