Kocapınar, Cizre

‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East.^[7] The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540.^[8] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had seventeen households, who paid thirty dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.^[9] In 1914, it was inhabited by 300 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[10] There were 250 Syriac Orthodox Christians and some Chaldean Catholic families.^[11] Amidst the Sayfo, on 1 June 1915, most of the Syriacs were taken and killed by the Kurds of the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes.^[12] Fifteen families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.^[11] The village was subsequently seized by Kurds.^[13]

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