The Shekak or Shakkak ( Kurdish : شکاک, Şikakî ) is a Kurdish tribe present in various regions, mainly in West Azerbaijan province , Iran .
4-608: The Shikaki tribe are first mentioned in a Yezidi mişûr (manuscript) from 1207 AD, where they're mentioned as one of the tribes affiliated to Pir Sini Darani , who is a Yezidi saint represented in the Yezidi religion as the Lord of the sea. In the Sharafnama , they are mentioned twice. First, in the chapter on the emirate of Bohtan , as being one of the four tribes living in Hakkâri . Second, in
8-589: The 17th century and settled west of Lake Urmia , which displaced the Donboli tribe. The first known chieftain of the 'Awdoǐ was Ismail Agha, who died in 1816 and whose tomb is beside the Naslu River . His grandson Jafar Agha was executed as a bandit in Tabriz in 1905. Jafar's brother Simko Shikak was responsible for leading the anti- Christian and anti- Alevi massacres in the area before and during World War I , and for
12-503: The chapter on the Ayyubid emirate of Hasankeyf . In a 16th-century Ottoman Defter , they are mentioned in the regions of Birecik , Kahta , Joum, Suruç and Ravendan, and called 'Taife-I Ekrâd-I Shikakî'. In another Defter, they are mentioned in the region of Çemişgezek . Among the clans of the Shekak are the 'Awdoǐ or Evdoyî. According to their oral history they came from Diyarbakır in
16-564: The organised resistance against the regime of Reza Shah . The Shekak tribe has been described as brave warriors and they trained officers of soldiers of the Qajar dynasty since the reign of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar . The tribe inhabits the villages of Akçakuşak , Çevrimli , Düğünyurdu , Koçtepe and Yatağankaya in the Şırnak Province of Turkey . It moreover inhabits multiple villages in Tunceli Province . Turkicized Shiite portions of
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