Hakkâri Province (, , ), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. The province had a population of 278,218 in 2021. The current Governor is İdris Akbıyık. The province encompasses 8 municipalities, 140 villages and 313 hamlets. The province is a stronghold for Kurdish nationalism and a hotspot in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. Districts Hakkâri province is divided into five districts (capital district in bold): Çukurca District Derecik District (since 2018) Hakkâri District Şemdinli District Yüksekova District Demographics Hakkari Province is located in Turkish Kurdistan and has an overwhelmingly Kurdish population. The province is tribal and most of the Kurds adhere to the Shafiʽi school with the Naqshbandi order having a strong presence around Şemdinli. The Kurdish tribes in the province include the Doski, Ertuşi, Gerdi, Herki, Jirki and Pinyaniş. The area had a significant Christian Assyrian population from various tribes before the Assyrian genocide in 1915. The Assyrian tribes in the region were Jilu, Dez, Baz, Tkhuma, Tal and Tyari. Relations between Assyrians and Kurds have been described as 'tense coexistence' due to the ability to coexist despite the recurring disputes over land and life stock and robbery of each other and of travelers. Assyrian resentment in the region was more directed towards the Ottomans than the Kurds, due to the Ottoman hostility towards the Christian minority, viewing them as a disloyal non-Muslim component. Hakkari Sanjak, part of Van Vilayet, had a population of 5,896 in 1881-1882 of which was Muslim and Christian. In the 1945 census, of the population was Muslim, while Jews constituted the largest religious minority with . Only one Christian was enumerated in 1945, a Protestant denomination. In the same census, Kurdish and Turkish were the first language for and of the population. The Jewish population left for Israel shortly after 1948. In the 1950 census, of the population spoke Kurdish as first language, while the second largest first language was Turkish at . In the subsequent census of 1955, Kurdish constituted the first language for of the population and Turkish for . The same census found of the population to be Muslim. Kurdish and Turkish remained the two largest first languages in the 1960 census for and of the population, respectively. As with the previous census, Muslims constituted of the population. In the last census conducted in Turkey in 1965, Kurdish remained the largest first language