Yassıca (; ) 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 71 in 2021. It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.
History Armun (today called Yassıca) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that Armun had eight households, who paid eighteen dues, and did not have a church or priest. In 1914, the village was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Midyat. There were ten Syriac families in 1915. Amidst the Sayfo, the village was attacked by Turkish soldiers and some Kurdish tribesmen, leaving only ten Syriac survivors. By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.
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