Idil
| İdil | |
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 İdil
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| Coordinates: 37°20′30″N 41°53′30″E / 37.34167°N 41.89167°ECoordinates: 37°20′30″N 41°53′30″E / 37.34167°N 41.89167°E | |
| Country |
 Turkey
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| Province | Şırnak |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mehmet Muhdi Aslan (BDP) |
| • Kaymakam | Adem Kaya |
| Area | |
| • District | 1,266.10 km2 (488.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Urban | 24,595 |
| • District | 71,147 |
| • District density | 56/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Post code | 733xx |
| Website | www |
İdil (Kurdish: Hezex), Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܙܒܕܐ Beṯ Zabday or ܐܙܟ Āzaḵ) is a district of Şırnak Province of Turkey. The predominant religion in the region is Islam, although it was once the home of many Syriacs belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church and who were speakers of the Syriac language, an Aramaic dialect. Idil, part of Tur Abdin, was one of the villages that fell victim to the Aramean Genocide or Seyfo (literally "the sword" in Syriac) from 1915–1918 (the final years of the Ottoman Empire). After the genocide, many of Idil's (or Beth-Zabday's) surviving Arameanpopulation was involved in a diaspora; like many of the other Arameans and Armenians; they too fled to parts of the Middle East, Cyprus, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Canada, and the United States. Kefshenne, Hedel, Esfes, Beth Ishoq, Miden, Beth sbirino, is one of its important villages.
The Aramean (Syriac) village of Beth Zabday (Azekh). Azekh was like other villages inhabited solely by Arameans. During the Aramean Genocide of 1915, the Azkheniye/Azkhoye fought hard back and defended Christians and themselves against the overwhelming Kurdish and Turkish troops attacking the village for no other reason than to slaughter the Aramean inhabitants. Until 1964, there were no Muslims (Kurds, Turks) in Azekh. Till the beginning of the 1960s, there were no less than 3500 Arameans living in Beth Zabday/Azekh. In order to change the Aramean Christian character and demography of the village, the Turkish state built houses and gave them to Kurds. Nonetheless until 1977, 90% of the village was still Aramean. In this year (1977) through fraud the Kurds, with approval from the local administration, usurped the office of the Aramean mayor of the village Shukru Tutus, who had tried from the beginning to stop the landgrab by Kurds, and also the selling of land to Muslims. It is stated that Anwar al-Sadat congratulated from Egypt Abdurrahman Abay for taking over the office of mayor of Azekh; Anwar al-Sadat is quoted as saying: „I congratulate you to be the first Muslim who had seized/occupied Azekh/Beth Zabday.” The Kurdish nomadic tribes, which were always eager for seizing Aramean lands, began to attack more and more the village. Because of general insecurity and persecution by Kurds in these decades, including PKK terror, many Arameans had to flee the village in the following years. In June 1994 the Aramean mayor Shukru Tutus was murdered by Muslim Kurds, by the clan of the mentioned Abdurrahman Abay. As a direct consequence of this murder and the continuing persecution by Kurds on the one hand, and the refusal/omission of the Turkish state to protect the Arameans on the other hand, the Aramean inhabitants, still numbering a few hundred, fled the village. And as consequence of this Kurdish and Islamic occupation and oppression policy, today there are around 24.000 Muslims in Azekh. None of them is native to Azekh.
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