Makhmour refugee camp
Makhmur Refugee Camp
Wargeha Şehîd Rustem Cudi | |
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| Coordinates: 35°47′21.5″N 43°36′21.95″E / 35.789306°N 43.6060972°E | |
| Country | Iraq |
| Governorate | Erbil Governorate |
| Autonomous region | Kurdistan Region |
| Established | 1998 |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 12,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
The Makhmur refugee camp (also spelled Makhmour or Maxmur) was founded in 1998, and is located in the Makhmur District, some 60 Km southwest to Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG). About 12,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled the civil war between Kurds and the Turkish Armed Forces in the 1990s, live in this refugee camp. The refugees and their descendants stem from the depopulated Kurdish villages in Turkey. The Turkish authorities claim they had to depopulate the villages as they have been infiltrated by militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).