Following a legislative amendment introduced in late 2012, the Governorate of Mardin established a liquidation committee. The Liquidation Committee started to redistribute in the city, the property of institutions whose legal entity had expired. The transfer and liquidation procedures are still ongoing. In 2016, the Transfer, Liquidation and Redistribution Committee of Mardin Governorate transferred to primarily the Treasury as well as other relevant public institutions numerous churches, monasteries, cemeteries and other assets of the Syriac community in the districts of Mardin.

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In mid June, more churches, monasteries, graveyards and other assets of the Syriac community in Mardin have been usurped and transferred to the state's Treasury and other relevant state institutions. Writer and analyst Jan Bet- Sawoce spoke about the Turkish state's seizure of Syriacs' property in Mardin and called these practices of the AKP regime a continuation of Ottoman policies which based on the blood of non-Muslim people. Commenting these practices as intentions to homogenize the region completely and to clear it from ancient peoples, Sawoce said the following: "The Ottoman policy was built at the expense of non-Muslim people. They enforced their policy throughout their history by stirring chaos under which disguise they grabbed the desired swathes of land and properties and tried to subjugate the peoples' will. Then they would always make sure that the owners could never remember that, by destroying all written records of those practices. And unfortunately it actually gets overwritten after two-three generations have passed. What should one expect from their future, how should one think of their own history, when former churches and monasteries are being used by them as mosques, state's offices and such for a long time?" "THEY WANT TO TURN THE REGION INTO A TURKISH-MUSLIM SYNTHESIS" Sawoce continued as follows: "Let me give an example, today the extent of the Turkish military base in Midyat used to be the Monastery of Mor