Değirmenüstü (; ) is a village in the Beşiri District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Reman tribe and had a population of 358 in 2021.
History Azkī (today called Değirmenüstü) was historically inhabited by Kurdish-speaking Syriac Orthodox Christians, Armenians, and Church of the East Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 7 households, who paid 45 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 5 Armenian hearths in 1880. It was located in the Beşiri kaza in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . It was populated by 100 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
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