Mağaraköy, İdil

Mağaraköy
Village
Village
Village
Mağaraköy is located in Turkey
Mağaraköy
Mağaraköy
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°17′06″N 41°34′16″E / 37.285°N 41.571°E / 37.285; 41.571
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
Districtİdil
Population
 (2022)[1]
15
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Mağaraköy or Mağara (Kurdish: Kiwex)[2] is a village in the İdil District of the Şırnak Province in Turkey.[3] The village is populated by Kurds of the Salihan tribe.[4]

Population

Mağara was a large village at the start of the 1900s and was home to the Yazidi Çelkî tribe. When the Ottomans called upon them to join the army in 1910s, they refused. No school existed in the village.[5]

In 2022, the village had a population of 15, increased from 6 in 2012.[1] In the 1980s, the village was reported to be populated by the Hevirkan tribe, a tribe of Yazidi belief.[6] In 2018, the village was reported to be populated by the Salihan tribe. The Salihan tribe has both Muslim and Yazidi members, but the ones in Mağara are Yazidi.[4]

View of Kiwekh (2018)
Yazidi temple „Quba Xatuna Fexra“ (shrine of Khatuna Fekhra) in Kiwekh (2018)

References

  1. ^ a b "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜIK. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Li Hezex û Wêranşarê cejna Çarşema Serê Nîsanê hat pîrozkirin" (in Kurdish). 17 April 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). p. 160. ISBN 9789944360944.
  5. ^ Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (2009). Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about Their Religion. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 73. ISBN 9783447060608.
  6. ^ Aşiretler raporu (in Turkish). Kaynak Yayınları. 1998. p. 234.