Sazlıçökek (; ) is a settlement in the municipality and district of Sur, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. It is populated by Kurds.
History Talġāz (today called Sazlıçökek) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians. 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 church or a priest. There were 2 Armenian hearths in 1880. The village was attacked and plundered during the massacres in the Diyarbekir vilayet in 1895.
The village was located in the Diyarbakır central district (merkez kaza) in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . In 1914, it was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.
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