Yediyol (; ) is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Reà Âkotan tribe and had a population of 43 in 2021.
HelqÃÂmiyyah (today called Yediyol) 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 1 household, who paid 5 dues, and did not have a priest. There was a Syriac Orthodox church of Morë Eliyyà Â. In 1914, it was populated by 300 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza (district) of Beà Âiri. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, à Âegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
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