Samanlı is a village in the Beşiri District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 206 in 2021.
History Aşağıazik (today called Samanlı) was historically inhabited by Kurdish-speaking Syriac Orthodox Christians, Armenians, and Church of the East Christians. There were 12 Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Hakob. 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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