Bıçakçı (; ) is a village in the

Batman District Batman District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Batman Province in Turkey. Its seat is the city of Batman, Turkey, Batman.Batman Province Batman Province (, ; ) is a province in Turkey. It was created in May 1990 with the Law No. 3647 taking some parts from the eastern Province of Siirt and some from the southern Province of Mardin. Its area is 4,477 km2, and its population i ...

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. The village is populated by

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

of the Reşkotan tribe and had a population of 772 in 2021. The

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of Ballıtepe is attached to the village.

History

Kīrḫah (today called Bıçakçı) was historically inhabited by

Syriac Orthodox Christians The Syriac Orthodox Church (), also informally known as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian denomination, denomination that originates from the Church of Antioch. The church currently has around 4-5 million followers. The ch ...

and

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-speaking

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. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 6 households, who paid 15 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. It was located in the ''

kaza A kaza (, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It is also discussed in English under the names district, subdistrict, and juridical district. Kazas co ...

'' of

Beşiri Beşiri (, ) is a town and seat of the Beşiri District in the Batman Province of Turkey.İlçe ...

. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the

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