Baykan

Dayr Hābil (today called Baykan) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.{{sfnp|Bcheiry|2009|p=47}} It is alternatively named as an Armenian village.{{sfnp|Verheij|2017|p=140}} 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.{{sfnp|Barsoum|2008|p=32}} The Maphrian Basil Barsawma ({{reign|1422|1455}}) was a monk at the Monastery of Mar Habel.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2016|p=496}} Ignatius Khalaf of Maʿdan, patriarch of Antioch ({{reign|1455|1483}}), was from the village of the Monastery of Hobīl.{{sfnp|Bcheiry|2013|pp=31–32}}

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.{{sfnp|Bcheiry|2009|p=47}} There was a church of Morī Ḥananyyā.{{sfnp|Bcheiry|2009|p=47}} 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.{{sfnp|Dinno|2017|p=177}} The monastery and most of the houses were burned down and the villagers took refuge in friendly Muslim villages.{{sfnp|Dinno|2017|p=177}}

In the local elections in March 2019, Ramazan Sarsılmaz from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected mayor.{{Cite web|title=Siirt Baykan Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri|url=https://www.sabah.com.tr/secim/31-mart-2019-yerel-secim-sonuclari/siirt/baykan/ilcesi-yerel-secim-sonuclari|website=www.sabah.com.tr|access-date=2020-05-16}} Mehmet Tunç was appointed Kaymakam in September 2018.{{Cite web|title=Kaymakam Özgeçmişi|url=http://baykan.gov.tr/kaymakam-ozgecmisi|website=baykan.gov.tr|access-date=2020-05-16}} On 15 May 2020, Sarsılmaz was dismissed from his post, and Mehmet Tunç was appointed as the trustee of the municipality.{{Cite web|title=Six HDP co-mayors removed from duty in southeastern Turkey, eastern province mayor detained|url=https://www.duvarenglish.com/politics/2020/05/15/six-hdp-co-mayors-removed-from-duty-in-southeastern-turkey-eastern-province-mayor-detained/|website=www.duvarenglish.com|date=15 May 2020 |language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-16}}

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• {{cite book |last1=Barsoum |first1=Aphrem |date=2008|title=History of the Za'faran Monastery |publisher=Gorgias Press |translator=Matti Moosa |author-link=Ignatius Aphrem I |url=https://archive.org/details/history-of-the-zafaran-monastery-by-ignatius-aphram-barsoum-z-lib.org |access-date=26 June 2021}}
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• {{cite journal|last1=Verheij|first1=Jelle|title="The year of the firman:" The 1895 massacres in Hizan and Şirvan (Bitlis vilayet)|journal=Études arméniennes contemporaines|volume=10|issue=10|year=2017|pages=125–159|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327505102|accessdate=16 September 2020}}
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Category:Populated places in Baykan District

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