Pınarbaşı, İdil

ʿAyn-Sare (today called Pınarbaşı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had eight households, who paid twenty-six dues, and did not have a church or a priest.^[7] In 1914, the village was inhabited by 150 Syriacs, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.^[8] There was fifteen Syriac families and a significant Kurdish population.^[3] Amidst the Sayfo, a number of Syriacs fled to Azakh after having been warned by a Kurdish woman that their Kurdish neighbours were conspiring to massacre them, whilst those who did not believe her and remained at ʿAyn-Sare were killed.^[3]

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