Dökmetaş () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yenişehir, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 1,798 in 2025.
History Dökmetaş is tentatively identified with the village of Qarā Klīsah, which 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 6 households, who did not pay any dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 6 Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church. The village was attacked and plundered during the massacres in the Diyarbekir vilayet in 1895. It was located in the Diyarbakır central district (merkez kaza) in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . In 1914, the village was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.
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