Sürgücü, Savur

Awina (today called Sürgücü) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[8] The kaza of Awina in the sanjak of Mardin in the Diyarbekir vilayet was named after the village although the administrative seat was at Savur.^[9] The Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji estimated the village's population as 600 in 1914, including 60 Chaldean Catholics and Armenian Catholics, who did not have a priest, church, or school, whilst the rest of the population was Muslim.^[10] In 1914, it was populated by 100 Syriacs, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[11] The Christians at Awina were massacred on 1 June 1915 amidst the Sayfo.^[12]

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