Ortaköy (; syr, Ārōsh) is a village in the

Uludere District Uludere District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. In 2021, the district had a population of 44,924. The seat of the district is the town of Uludere. Its area is 841 km2. The district was formed in 1957. Population Aroun ...

in Şırnak province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kaşuran tribe and had a population of 731 in 2021.

History

Ārōsh (today called Ortaköy) was historically inhabited by Assyrian people and located in the Lower Tyari district in the

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region. According to the English missionary George Percy Badger, the village was inhabited by 17 Assyrian families in 1850, all of whom belonged to the

Church of the East The Church of the East ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ, ''ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā'') or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian C ...

; this grew to 20 families in 1877 when visited by

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, by which time a church had also been built. Ārōsh was served as part of the diocese of the Patriarch of the Church of the East. The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo.

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