Hasköy

Turkey / Mus / Korkut /
 town, district center

• Belediye / Municipality:
www.haskoy.bel.tr
• Kaymakamlık / District-Governorate:
www.haskoy.gov.tr

Hasköy (Armenian: Խասգեղ, Kurdish: Dêrxas) is a town and district of Muş Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of present-day Turkey. It was Armenian village in Tarawn (Moush) valley of Historical Armenia. Population of it was massacred by Turks during the Armenian genocide in 1915-1923. Since the 1926 renamed to Hasköy which is later became a town that is a district capital in the Muş Province of modern Turkey.
The village has a population of 12,822, and the district 27,613, mostly kurdish people.
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Coordinates:   38°41'7"N   41°41'12"E
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