Bıçakçı, Batman
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Bıçakçı (Kurdish: Kerikê; Syriac: Kīrḫah)[2][a] is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Reşkotan tribe and had a population of 772 in 2021.[1][5]
History
Kīrḫah (today called Bıçakçı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 6 households, who paid 15 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.[2] It was located in the kaza of Beşiri.[7] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[8]