Tulumtaş, Kurtalan

Tulumtaş is a village in the Kurtalan District of Siirt Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Erebiyan tribe and had a population of 867 in 2021.
The hamlets of Akbulut, Çukurlu and Evciler are attached to Tulumtaş.

History

Gafānī was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 4 households, who paid 17 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.
According to the Sghert Prelacy survey in 1902, the village had 3 Armenian households and 8 Turkish households. The 1913 Sghert Prelacy survey recorded that the village had 5 Syriac households and 30 Muslim households.