Yolkonak

	Yolkonak
Basic data
Province (il) :	Batman
District ( ilçe ) :	Beşiri
Coordinates :	37 ° 56 ' N , 41 ° 19' E Coordinates: 37 ° 56 '12 " N , 41 ° 18' 52" E
Height :	645 m
Residents :	80 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+90) 488
Postal code :	72200
License plate :	72

Yolkonak ( Kurmanji : Hacrê) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 3 km northeast of Beşiri in the Beşiri district of the same name in the Batman province . The place is located in Southeast Anatolia .

History and population

The original name of the village is Hacrê. The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . The village had an exclusively Yazidi population.

According to the 1973 Siirt Province Yearbook , 232 people lived in the village. In 2008 only one Yazidi family lived in the village.

Individual evidence

↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
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↑ Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).
↑ Yüzlerce Ezidi Batman'a sığındı - Ciwan Değer. August 13, 2014, accessed December 31, 2018 (Turkish).
↑ ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

[1] Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

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[3] Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).

[4] Yüzlerce Ezidi Batman'a sığındı - Ciwan Değer. August 13, 2014, accessed December 31, 2018 (Turkish).

[5] ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 31, 2018 .