Özbek (Kurdish: Tilseqan,[2] Syriac: Tel-Sefan)[nb 1] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.
[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 825 in 2021.
[1][2] The hamlet of Tuğlu is attached to Özbek.
[4] Tel-Sefan (today called Özbek) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians.
[3] In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Assyrians, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.