Çiftlikköy () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. The village had a population of 311 in 2021.
History Dayr Eliyyō (today called Çiftlikköy) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. The Syriac Orthodox Church of Saint Theodore at Dayr Eliyyō is believed to have been constructed in the 5th century. The Monastery of Mar Iliyya (Elijah) the Prophet was renovated by Yuhanna, metropolitan of Mardin, in the mid-12th century. It was still inhabited by monks in the 16th century. In 1582–1589, 15 deacons and 2 priests were ordained for the Church of Morī Eliyyō at Dayr Eliyyō.
In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 7 households, who did not pay any dues, and did not have a priest. It was located in Mardin merkez kaza (central district) in the Mardin sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . It was populated by 200 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. There were 30 Christian families. It is unknown what happened to the village amidst the Sayfo, however, all of the neighbouring Christian villagers were destroyed in June 1915. There were 2 Christian families at the village in 1999.
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