Akyar (; ) is a village in the Gercüş District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kercoz tribe and had a population of 256 in 2021.
History Marwaniye (today called Akyar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. There were ten Syriac families in 1915. Amidst the Sayfo, all but one of the Syriacs at Marwaniye were murdered. By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.
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