Hasköy, Muş

Municipality in Muş, Turkey

38°40′56″N 41°41′22″E / 38.68222°N 41.68944°E / 38.68222; 41.68944CountryTurkeyProvinceMuşDistrictHasköyGovernment

• MayorHikmet Karayel (AKP)Elevation

1,250 m (4,100 ft)Population

(2022)^[1]

13,057Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)Postal code

49700

Area code0436Websitewww.haskoy.bel.tr

Hasköy (Armenian: Խասգյուղ, romanized: Khaskyugh; Kurdish: Dêrxas^[2]) is a town in Muş Province of the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is the seat of Hasköy District.^[3] Its population is 13,057 (2022).^[1] The mayor is Hikmet Karayel (AKP).

Demographics

The main town and two of the nearby villages are populated by Arabs from the Bidri tribe, while Kurds reside in the other 16 villages. The Bidri tribe knows Arabic and Kurdish.^[4]^[5] 4,000 Armenians lived in the area before the Armenian genocide in 1915.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
^ Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56.
^ İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
^ Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 378.
^ Kaya, Şerafettin (1998). "Ilk durak Muş". Hevgirtin Welatparêz (in Turkish) (98): 39.
^ "Village Hasköy / Dêrxas in the Plain of Mush". Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved 21 November 2022.