Özbek, İdil

Özbek is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 825 in 2021.
The hamlet of Tuğlu is attached to Özbek.

History

Tel-Sefan was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had six households, who paid thirteen dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Syriacs, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.