Yakacık, Beşiri
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Yakacık (Kurdish: Meza reş; Syriac: Mazrehreš)[2][a] is a village in the Beşiri District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Elîkan tribe and had a population of 62 in 2021.[1][5]
History
Mazrehreš (today called Yakacık) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 3 households, who paid 22 dues, and did not have a priest.[2] There was a church of Yūldaṯ Alohō.[2] There were 20 Armenian hearths and an Armenian church in 1880.[7] It was located in the district of Beşiri.[8] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[9]