Oymak, İdil
Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey
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Oymak (Kurdish: Rêzok)[2][a] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Hesinan tribe and had a population of 1,380 in 2021.[1][2]
History
Rizök (today called Oymak) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[3] It was located in the Midyat kaza in the Mardin sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in c. 1900.[3] In 1914, there were 100 Syriacs, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[5]