Çayırlı ( ku, Kefnas) is a neighbourhood located in the municipality and district of

Midyat Midyat ( ku, Midyad, Syriac: ܡܕܝܕ ''Mëḏyaḏ'', Turoyo: ''Miḏyoyo'', ar, مديات) is a town in the Mardin Province of Turkey. The ancient city is the center of a centuries-old Hurrian town in Upper Mesopotamia. In its long history, the ...

, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 254 as of 2021. The village is Yazidi. The settlement of Derebaşı () is a hamlet of Çayırlı and is also populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe who adhere to Yazidism.

History

In March 1879, British officer Trotter visited the village and described the village as "a large village abandoned and in ruins, evidently quite recently deserted". The village was seemingly plundered and burned by the

Ottomans The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922). Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...

and the villagers had fled to the mountains with their chief while others settled in Meziza. In 2014, a Bundestag report stated that refugees from the village had difficulties returning to the village by

paramilitary A paramilitary is an organization whose structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. Paramilitary units carr ...

and Islamic-fundamentalistic groups.

Location

Kefnas is located ca. east of the Yazidi village Koçan and ca. northeast of the Yazidi village Denwan.

History

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Population

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