Seyit Hasan (formerly Bakacık, ) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Bismil Bismil () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,679 km2, and its population is 118,698 (2022). The district was established on 4 January 1936. Neighborhoods There are 122 mahalle ...

Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province (; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. Its area is 15,101 km2, and its population is 1,804,880 (2022). The provincial capital is the city of Diyarbakır. The Kurdish majority province ...

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. It is populated by

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

and by

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and had a population of 232 in 2022.

History

The

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Turkmen population settled in the village from Kisas in the 20th century. Many of them migrated to

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and other parts of Turkey after 1989, while Kurds would settle in the village.

References

{{Bismil District Neighbourhoods in Bismil District Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province