Acar, Sason

Acar (Kurdish: Herend), formerly called Argint, is a village in the Sason District, Batman Province, Turkey.

After threats of violence from their Kurdish neighbours, in 1964 the village's Christian Armenian population mass converted to Islam.

[4] Despite the conversion, that same year Kurds burned the Armenian villager's fields and forced most of them to flee to Diyarbekir.

They and their descendants continued to live in Acar until 1985, when the remainder of the village was sold to Kurds and the remaining Armenians moved to Istanbul.

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