Başarköy (; ) is a village in the Gercüş District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kercoz tribe and had a population of 37 in 2021. It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.
History Eldawā (today called Başarköy) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 3 households, who paid 5 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. It is tentatively identified with the village of Ylova, which was populated by 150 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Midyat.
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