Çiftlikköy, Silopi

Çiftlikköy (Kurdish: Bedrû,[2] Syriac: Guerektha d’Badro)[3][nb 1] is a village in the Silopi District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.

[5] Guerektha d’Badro (today called Çiftlikköy) was historically inhabited by Chaldean Catholic Assyrians.

[6] The scribe Isha'ya, son of Peter, of the Mir Sharif family of Arena, copied a manuscript at the village in 1844.

[7] In 1850, Guerektha d’Badro was populated by 12 Chaldean Catholic families and were served by one church as part of the Chaldean Catholic diocese of Gazarta, according to the English missionary George Percy Badger.

[9] In 1913, Guerektha d’Badro had 600 Chaldean Catholic Assyrians with one church and one priest as per Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji whilst the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation gave the village's population as 800 Assyrians in 1914.