Mağaraköy, İdil

Mağaraköy or Mağara (Kurdish: Kiweh or Kiwex) is a village in the İdil District of the Şırnak Province in Turkey.[1] The village is populated by Kurds of the Salihan tribe and had a population of 20 people in 2021.[2][3]

Mağaraköy
Village
Village
Mağaraköy
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.285°N 41.571°E / 37.285; 41.571
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
Districtİdil
Population
 (2021)[1]
20
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)

Population

Mağara was a large village at the start of the 1900s and was home to the Yazidi Çelkî tribe. When the Ottomans called upon them to join the army in 1910s, they rebuked. No school existed in the village.[4]

In 2020, the village had a population of 20, increased from 6 in 2011 – all male.[5] In the 1980s, the village was reported to be populated by the Hevirkan tribe, a tribe of Yazidi belief.[6] In 2018, the village was reported to be populated by the Salihan tribe. The Salihan tribe has both Muslim and Yazidi members, but the ones in Mağara are Yazidi.[3]

View of Kiwekh (2018)
Yazidi temple „Quba Xatuna Fexra“ (shrine of Khatuna Fekhra) in Kiwekh (2018)

References
  1. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  3. Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). p. 160. ISBN 9789944360944.
  4. Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (2009). Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about Their Religion. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 73. ISBN 9783447060608.
  5. "ŞIRNAK İDİL MAĞARAKÖY KÖYÜ NÜFUSU" (in Turkish). Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  6. Aşiretler raporu (in Turkish). Kaynak Yayınları. 1998. p. 234.
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