Kösetarla, Batman
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Kösetarla (Kurdish: Krediye; Syriac: Al-Krīdiyyah)[2][a] is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Sinikan tribe and had a population of 670 in 2021.[1][5]
History
Al-Krīdiyyah (today called Kösetarla) 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 13 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[7] There were 60 Armenian hearths in 1880.[8] There was an Armenian church of Surb Karapet.[8] In 1914, it was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[9] It was located in the kaza of Beşiri.[9] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[10]