Yemişli, Uludere Explained

Yemişli
Type:	village
Province:	Şırnak
District:	Uludere
Population As Of:	2023
Population Total:	2749

Yemişli (; syr|Margā) is a village in the Uludere District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Goyan tribe and had a population of 2,749 in 2023.

The hamlet of Yekmal is attached to Yemişli.^[1]

History

Margā (today called Yemişli) was inhabited by 760 Chaldean Catholic Assyrians in 1913 and had one church and one priest as part of the diocese of Zakho. The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo and its inhabitants were later resettled at Berseve near Zakho in Iraq.

Population

Population history from 2007 to 2023:^[2]

Bibliography

• Book: Baz, Ibrahim . Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü . 2016 . 9786058849631. tr.
• Book: Wilmshurst. David. 2000. The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
• Book: Yacoub. Joseph . 2016. Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Oxford University Press. James Ferguson.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dersan . Nilüfer . Fazlıoğlu . Aygül . 2002 . Şırnak ili Uludere ilçesi köyleri katılımcı kırsal kalkınma temelli alan araştırması . 19 December 2022 . 7 . tr.
2. Web site: Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters. . 10 May 2024.