Ağaçgeçit () is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Bağlar, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 427 in 2025.
History Qarte (today called Ağaçgeçit) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. It was located in the Diyarbakır central district (merkez kaza) in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . In 1914, it was inhabited by 150 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. Amidst the Sayfo, on 3 May 1915, Qarte and other neighbouring villages were surrounded by 150 men led by Shakir Bey with an Al-Khamsin death squad and members of the Rama tribe who seized the villages' men, rounded them up at Chanaqchi, and took them to a pit near the village of Hawar-Dejla, where they were shot. In total, 164 men were killed.
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