Şikak

Shikak (Shikaki, Shekak, Shikikak) is one of the major Kurdish tribes living in the Ottoman-Iranian border region, in the geography between the village of Van-Hakkâri and Hoy (Volume 4, s. 78; Volume 4, p. 181). ## In the Travel and Geography Sources, Mehmed Hurshid Pasha, while counting the major Kurdish tribes in the region at Seyahatnâme-i Hudud, along with tribes like Atmanî, Baban, Bıradost, Caf, Celali, Hayderan, Hemavend, Milan, Rişvan and Zîlan, conveys detailed information about the Shikaki tribe and the arms of these tribes (Volume 4, p. 78). The Ottoman-Iranian Hudu writings of the same author include the "Shikak Kurds" along with the Somay and Bıradost as frontier communities (Volume 4, p. 76). In the Russian translation of the 1890 work on the Azerbaijani region of Iran, the Azerbaijan population is mentioned as belonging to the Sunni sect of the "Shakak" in the Hoy village (Volume 4, p. 181). In the Ottoman Archive Documents, clan names play a keyword role in document scans of Kurds in the Ottomans' archives; in this context, the Sheki clan, along with the Celali, Milli and Hasenan clans, are among the clans that can be scanned through (Volume 3, p. 75). Among the documents of the century are records of the military purchase (cost of the Qur'an) of the Shikaki tribe near Hakkari (Volume 3, p. 65). According to the same work, Shah Abbas, ruler of Safevi, gave the great Kurdish forces an important place in the Iranian army, and commanders such as Shikaki Ali Khan Sultan emerged from these units and became part of the Iranic army (Collection: Zekî Beg, Kurds and Kurdistan History, PDF 191). In Ottoman documents from the Mutareke period, Van Valisi Bey Haydar's reports on the head of the Shıkak clan are recorded (Volume 3, p. 131). Simko's strong objection to the Iranian Crown Prince's letter to Simko that he would send Armenians and Nasturians to the region is also reported in the same documents (Volume 3, p. 122). Modern literature records that Ismail Agha Simko led major uprisings in Iran between 1919 and 1922 and was killed in an assassination by Iran in July 1930 (Collection: Gunter, Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, PDF p. 21).