Baykan

Template:Use British English Template:Infobox Turkey place Baykan (Template:Langx; Template:Langx;Template:Sfnp Template:Langx)Template:SfnpTemplate:Efn is a municipality in the Baykan District of the Siirt Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 5,544 in 2021. Baykan is divided into the neighbourhoods of Cefan, Havel, İnönü, Karşıyaka and Yenidoğan.

History

Dayr Hābil (today called Baykan) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.Template:Sfnp It is alternatively named as an Armenian village.Template:Sfnp A copy of the Gospel which contained the biography of Metropolitan Yuhanna of Mardin was sold to the church of the Monastery of Mar Abel in 1396.Template:Sfnp The Maphrian Basil Barsawma (Template:Reign) was a monk at the Monastery of Mar Habel.Template:Sfnp Ignatius Khalaf of Maʿdan, patriarch of Antioch (Template:Reign), was from the village of the Monastery of Hobīl.Template:Sfnp

In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 11 households, who paid 62 dues, and it did not have a priest.Template:Sfnp There was a church of Morī Ḥananyyā.Template:Sfnp In a letter from Priest Ibrahim to Patriarch Ignatius Abdul Masih II, it is recorded that the village was attacked by about 100 men of the Danabkta kochers led by two sons of the chief of the tribe, Mijdad Agha, on 15 October 1895, amidst the Hamidian massacres.Template:Sfnp The monastery and most of the houses were burned down and the villagers took refuge in friendly Muslim villages.Template:Sfnp

In the local elections in March 2019, Ramazan Sarsılmaz from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected mayor. Mehmet Tunç was appointed Kaymakam in September 2018. On 15 May 2020, Sarsılmaz was dismissed from his post, and Mehmet Tunç was appointed as the trustee of the municipality.

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