A big and conical mountain, called Ashour, dominates the plain of Kerker. The villages of this area are populated by Kurds and kurdified or Kurdish-speaking Armenians and Assyrians. In the XIX century half of those villages were subject to the government of Marash. Those were Oltish, Hatray, Masray and Tokharich villages. (Alishan. Ashakharagrutjun). And, according to Aleksandrean (Aleksanean. Patmutjun Sebastioy), in the area of Kerker the following villages were present as of 1912: Nokhutlu, Vakuk, Hatro and Tivan, with some 200 or 300 Armenian households, combined.
Arshag Alboyadjian. History of the Armenians in Malatia. pp. 510-511
Beirut: Sevan Press. A publication of Educational Society of Malatia.