Kocapınar (Kurdish: Emerîn;[2] Syriac: ‘Amīrīn)[3][a] is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.
[1][6] ‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East.
[7] The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540.
[10] Amidst the Sayfo, on 1 June 1915, most of the Assyrians were taken and killed by the Kurds of the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes.
[11] Fifteen families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.