Koçak (; ) is a village in the Gercüş District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Dermemikan tribe and had a population of 444 in 2021. It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.
History Karḫnū (today called Koçak) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 3 households, who did not pay any dues, and did not have a church or a priest.
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