Aydınkonak, Batman

Kūrik (today called Aydınkonak) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.^[4] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 10 households, who paid 24 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.^[1] There were 11 Armenian hearths in 1880.^[5] There was an Armenian church of Surb Hakob.^[5]

It is tentatively identified with the village of Kureké, which was populated by 200 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[6] It was located in the kaza (district) of Beşiri.^[7] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.^[8]

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