Çatak

Çatak (Kurdish:Şax‎, Armenian:Շատախ Šatax) is a district of Van Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran. The mayor is Celalettin Bartu (BDP).

Two people were killed in a bomb explosion at an outdoor cafe in south-east Turkey, police stated on September 4, 2006. It followed a series of bombings in the last week of August 2006, at Turkish resorts and in Istanbul, that killed at least three people.