Ormankaya, Hazro

Ormankaya is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Hazro, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 870 in 2022. It is located atop the Mountain of Takh.

History

Šemšem was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians. The village belonged to the Syriac Orthodox diocese of Hattack. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had eighty-four households, who paid one hundred and twenty-eight dues, and it did not have a priest. There were Syriac Orthodox churches of Morī Agrīpūs and Mortī Šmūnī. In 1880, there were forty-four Armenian hearths. There was an Armenian church of Surb Hovhannes. In 1914, it was populated by 800 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Lice. The village's population was massacred before mid-July 1915 amidst the Sayfo by gangs of çetes.