Çelikköy, Dargeçit

Chelik (today called Çelikköy) was historically inhabited by Kurdish-speaking Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[7] In the mid-nineteenth century, the village was reportedly populated by 400–500 Syriacs.^[3] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that Chelik had seven households, who paid sixty-nine dues, and it had one priest, but it did not have a church.^[6] In 1914, it was inhabited by 100 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[8] It was located in the kaza (district) of Midyat.^[9] There were ten or twenty Syriac families in 1915.^[10] The village served as the residence of the Kurdish Rammo tribal leader Mustafa Agha.^[3] Amidst the Sayfo, the village's Syriac population was massacred by the Ali Rammo tribe.^[3] The Nahiyah of Chelik served as the centre of the Erebi (Arap) tribe until 1927.^[11] By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs at Chelik.^[12]

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