Kayalı, İdil

Kayalı (Kurdish: Kefşîn;^[2][a] Syriac: Kefshenne)^[3][b] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.^[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Dorikan tribe and had a population of 433 in 2021.^[1][6]

Kayallı
Village
Kayallı Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.355°N 41.793°E / 37.355; 41.793
Country	Turkey
Province	Şırnak
District	İdil
Population  (2021)[1]	433
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

History

Kefshenne (today called Kayalı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[7] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 37 households, who paid 236 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.^[8] In 1914, the village was inhabited by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[9] There were 25–30 Syriac families in 1915.^[10] They had a Syriac landlord, Hano Basuski.^[11] It was located in the kaza of Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar.^[9] Amidst the Sayfo, the Syriacs fled with all their property to Azakh after having been warned by the Muslim villagers to flee for their own safety.^[11] They returned to Kefshenne after the war, but later emigrated to Mosul in Iraq.^[11] The village was subsequently seized by Kurds.^[12] By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.^[13]