Yeşildallı, Bağlar

Hawar-Khase (today called Yeşildallı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[3] It was located in the Diyarbakır central district (merkez kaza) in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in c. 1900.^[3] In 1914, it was inhabited by 50 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[4] Amidst the Sayfo, on 3 May 1915, men from Hawar-Khase and other neighbouring villages were rounded up at Chanaqchi by 150 militiamen led by Shakir Bey and members of the Kurdish Rama tribe led by Ömer and taken to a pit near the village of Hawar-Dejla, where they were shot.^[5] 164 men were murdered in total.^[5]

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