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Işıklar, Kızıltepe

Coordinates: 37°11′10″N 40°32′28″E / 37.186°N 40.541°E / 37.186; 40.541
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Işıklar
Neighbourhood
Işıklar is located in Turkey
Işıklar
Işıklar
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°11′10″N 40°32′28″E / 37.186°N 40.541°E / 37.186; 40.541
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMardin
DistrictKızıltepe
Population
 (2021)[1]
655
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Işıklar (Kurdish: Birahîmiyê;[2] Syriac: Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah)[3][a] is a village in the municipality and district of Kızıltepe, Mardin Province in Turkey.[6] The village is populated by Kurds of the Kîkan tribe and had a population of 655 in 2021.[1][2]

In the village, there is a Syriac Orthodox church of Morī Gewargīs.[5][7]

History

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Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah (today called Işıklar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[8] The Syriac Orthodox patriarch Ignatius John XIV (r. 1483–1492) renovated the village's church with a new altar.[9] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had thirty-five households, who paid one hundred and fifty-eight dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[7] There was also an Armenian Catholic community at the village.[10] Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah was attacked, plundered, and nearly completely burned down by Kurdish tribesmen amidst the Hamidian massacres in 1895.[10]

In 1914, it was inhabited by 400 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[11] There were ten Syriac Orthodox families in 1915.[12] It was mostly populated by Syriac Catholic Christians, but there were also some recent Protestant converts.[13] There were 60 Christian families at Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah.[13] Amidst the Sayfo, most of the population of Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah fled to Tell Armen in late June and took refuge at the Armenian Catholic building, where they were massacred on 25 June 1915.[14]

By 1966, there were eight Syriac Orthodox families at Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah.[12] Restoration of the Church of Morī Gewargīs at Al-Ibrāhīmiyyah, which had been abandoned and left in disuse for many years, began in 2015.[5] Upon completion of the church's restoration, Mass was celebrated there for the first time in over a century on 5 June 2022, however, consequently the only Christian family at the village was immediately attacked by at least 50 Muslims, who set fire to the family's fields and threatened them to leave the village.[5]

References

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Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Abrahamiya, Brahemiye, Brahîmîye, Ibrahimie, Ibrahimié, Ibrahimiyeh, Ibrāhimiyyah, Ibrahimiye, or İbrahimiye.[4][5]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Tan (2018), "Harita 2: Turabidin ve Berriyê mıntıkalarında yer alan aşiretlerin sınırları ile il, ilçe, köy ve mezralar" [Map 2: The borders of the tribes and provinces, districts, villages and hamlets in the Turabidin and Berriyê regions].
  3. ^ Bcheiry (2019), p. 57.
  4. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 320; Gaunt (2006), p. 212; Dinno (2017), p. 384; Brock (2017), p. 150.
  5. ^ a b c d "Scores of Muslims attack Assyrian family over land in Mardin". AsiaNews. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  6. ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  7. ^ a b Bcheiry (2009), p. 64.
  8. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 320.
  9. ^ Bcheiry (2013), p. 45.
  10. ^ a b Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 337.
  11. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 212, 424.
  12. ^ a b Dinno (2017), p. 384.
  13. ^ a b Gaunt (2006), p. 212.
  14. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 212–213.

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