Bağdere, Silvan

Bağdere is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had population of 605 in 2022.

History

Bāšnīq was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had twelve households, who paid sixty-three dues, and did not have a priest. There was a church of Yūldaṯ Alohō. There were three Armenian hearths in 1880. In 1914, there were 200 Syriacs at Bāšnīq, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. The Armenians were killed by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.