Kösetarla, Batman

Kösetarla is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Sinikan tribe and had a population of 670 in 2021.
The hamlet of Kumtepe is attached to the village.

History

Al-Krīdiyyah 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 6 households, who paid 13 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 60 Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Karapet. In 1914, it was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Beşiri. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.