Dargeçit is a district of the Mardin Province

Mardin Province

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 of Turkey

Turkey

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, traditionally an Assyrian/Syriac

Assyrian people

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 town. It had approximately 300 families in 1900. After the "Seyfo

Assyrian genocide

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" in 1916, many were killed. It was inhabited by the Assyrians/Syriacs

Assyrian people

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, Kurds

Kurdish people

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 and Armenians

Armenians

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. But from 1979 most of the Assyrian/Syriac people fled the city after the murder of Andreas Demir Lahdik, the Mayor of Kerburan at the time.

It has the Syriac Orthodox Church

Syriac Orthodox Church

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 of Mor Kuriyakos, which is now restored thanks to the Assyrian/Syriac diaspora. There are also two other churches, one Protestant and the other Catholic, both are in a very bad state.