Kayalı, İdil
Village in the Şırnak Province, Turkey
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Kayalı (Kurdish: Kefşîn;[2][a] Syriac: Kefshenne)[3][b] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Dorikan tribe and had a population of 433 in 2021.[1][6]
History
Kefshenne (today called Kayalı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[7] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 37 households, who paid 236 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.[8] In 1914, the village was inhabited by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[9] There were 25–30 Syriac families in 1915.[10] They had a Syriac landlord, Hano Basuski.[11] It was located in the kaza of Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar.[9] Amidst the Sayfo, the Syriacs fled with all their property to Azakh after having been warned by the Muslim villagers to flee for their own safety.[11] They returned to Kefshenne after the war, but later emigrated to Mosul in Iraq.[11] The village was subsequently seized by Kurds.[12] By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.[13]
