Alan (Kurdish: Helane;[2] Syriac: Hālānā)[3] is a village in the Şemdinli District of Hakkâri Province in southeastern Turkey.

[1] It is populated by the Kurdish Zerzan tribe who have close links to their counterparts in Iran.

[5] The hamlet of Cevizpınar (Kanîgûz) is attached to the village.

[2] Hālānā (today called Alan) was inhabited by 100 Assyrian families in 1877 when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts, all of whom were adherents of the Church of the East and were served by two functioning churches as part of the archdiocese of Shemsdin.

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