Traveler Frederic Millingen mentioned about population of Hakkari as 210,000 individuals in 1870, of which 2,000 were Jewish. Two decades after Millinge, Vital Cuinet estimated a total population of Hakkari as 300,000 at the end of the nineteenth century. Of this number 4,000 were Jewish and 112,000 Christians. During my … Continue reading Jews of Hakkari (Gever)