Güçlü (; ) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 582 in 2022.
History Zere (today called Güçlü) was historically inhabited by Chaldean Catholics, Syriac Orthodox Christians, and Kurdish-speaking Armenians. There were 25 Armenian hearths in 1880. It was located in the kaza (district) of Silvan in the Diyarbekir sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in .
By 1913, there were 120 recently converted Chaldean Catholics at the village who were served by one priest without a church as part of the archdiocese of Amida. In 1914, it was populated by 200 Syriacs, 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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