Doğançay is an Assyrian/Syriac

Assyrian people

The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...

 village in the Midyat

Midyat

Midyat is an originally Assyrian/Syriac town in Mardin Province of Turkey. The ancient city is the epicenter of a centuries-old Assyrian/Syriac enclave in Southeast-Turkey, widely familiar under its Syriac name Tur Abdin. A cognate of the name Midyat is first encountered in an inscription of the...

 district of Mardin Province

Mardin Province

Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 744,606. The population was 835,173 in 2000. The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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There is a monastery, called Mor Yuhanon (Syriac-Aramaic

Syriac language

Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...

for Saint John) in Mizizah.

Population

1870: 16 families

1915: 70 families

1960: 90 families families

1970: 212 families

1960-1970 families

1978: 78 families

1979: 75 families

1980: 42 families

1985: 37 families

1987: 35 families

2006: 6 families

2007: 7 families

2008: 6 families