Kocapınar, Cizre

Kocapınar (Emerîn, ) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman tribes and had a population of 806 in 2021.

History
‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Assyrians, of whom the latter had formerly adhered to the Church of the East. The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Church of the East Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540. By the time of the Sayfo, 300 people inhabited the village according to Agha Petros, including 250 Syriac Orthodox Christians and some Chaldean Catholic families. On 1 June 1915, the village was seized and most of its inhabitants were captured by Kurds belonging to the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes; 15 families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.