[1] The current mayor is Tahir Saklı from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), elected in 2019.

[4] The town is populated by Kurds of the Humaru and Zerzan tribes and moreover of mixed tribal and non-tribal origin.

It was officially attributed to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish militant group.

Television news channel, Nergis Televizyonu (NTV), claimed that up to two thousand troops were involved in the operation.

[9] Population history from 1997 to 2023:[10][1] Şemdinli has a hot, dry-summer continental climate (Köppen: Dsa).