Kayı (, ) is a village in the

İdil District İdil District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. The seat of the district is the town of İdil and the population was 77,105 in 2021. Its area is 1,148 km2. The district was formed in 1937. The western part of the district ...

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. The village is populated by

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of the Omerkan tribe and had a population of 169 in 2021. It is located in the historic region of

Tur Abdin Tur Abdin (; ; ; or ) is a hilly region situated in southeast Turkey, including the eastern half of the Mardin Province, and Şırnak Province west of the Tigris, on the Syria–Turkey border, border with Syria and famed since Late Antiquity for ...

History

Ḥidl (today called Kayı) is identified with the ancient town of Andulu, located in the Izalla region. The village was historically inhabited by adherents of the

Church of the East The Church of the East ( ) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church, the Chaldean Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches o ...

. Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (), was born at Ḥidl. The Church of Mar Bassus and Susan at Ḥidl was taken over by the Syriac Orthodox Church as a result of the villagers' conversion prior to the 18th century. In 1914, the village was populated by 100 Syriacs, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the

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. There were 20 or 22 Syriac families at Ḥidl in 1915. Amidst the

Sayfo The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian people, Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan province by Ottoman Army ...

, the villagers took refuge at Azakh and remained there until the end of the massacres. By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.

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