Özbek, İdil
Özbek (Kurdish: Tilseqan, Syriac: Tel-Sefan) is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 825 in 2021.
The hamlet of Tuğlu is attached to Özbek.
History
Tel-Sefan (today called Özbek) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians. In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Assyrians, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.
References
Notes
- ^ Alternatively transliterated as Telsakam, Telsekan, or Telsakan.
Citations
- ^ "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ Tan (2018), p. 165.
- ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 325.
- ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 425.
Bibliography
- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill.
- Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). p. 165. ISBN 9789944360944.