Çığır, İdil
Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey
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Çığır (Kurdish: Serkanî;[2] Syriac: Serkani)[3][a] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 1,878 in 2021.[1][2]
History
Serkani (today called Çığır) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[3] It was populated by 200 Syriacs in 1914, according to according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[5]