Özbek, İdil
Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey
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Özbek (Kurdish: Tilseqan;[2] Syriac: Tal-Seqān)[3][a] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 825 in 2021.[1][2]
History
Tal-Seqān (today called Özbek) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[4] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 6 households, who paid 13 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.[3] In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Syriacs, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.[6]