Kocalar, Batman

Kocalar is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 1,014 in 2021.

History

Qūğā 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 5 households, who paid 16 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 50 Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Nshan.
It was populated by 50 Syriacs in 1914, 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.