Kızıltepe

Kızıltepe (Turkish pronunciation: [kɯˈzɯɫtepe]; Kurdish: Qoser;[2] Ottoman Turkish: Tell-Ermen or Tell Armen, lit. 'Armenian hill' [3]) is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey.[4] Its area is 1,236 km2,[5] and its population is 267,151 (2022).[1] It is mainly populated by Kurds of the Kîkan tribe.[6]

For other uses, see Kızıltepe (disambiguation).
Kızıltepe
Municipality
Map showing Kızıltepe District in Mardin Province
Map showing Kızıltepe District in Mardin Province
Kızıltepe is located in Turkey
Kızıltepe
Kızıltepe
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°11′38″N 40°35′10″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMardin
Area
1,236 km2 (477 sq mi)
Elevation
498 m (1,634 ft)
Population
 (2022)[1]
267,151
 • Density220/km2 (560/sq mi)
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)
Area code0482
Websitewww.kiziltepe.bel.tr

Government

In the local elections of March 2019 Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz was elected as Mayor.[7] But on 15 November 2019 she was dismissed and a trustee was appointed.[8] The current District Governor is Huseyn Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee.[8]

History

The town has a historic 13th century great Friday mosque built by the Artuqids.

On 1 July 1915, during the 1915 genocide in Diyarbekir, there was a massacre in the village where its Christian population was murdered by militia and Kurds. About seventy women were raped in the church, then put to death. Men, women, and children were killed indiscriminately and many victims were decapitated. After the massacre, Kurdish women stabbed any survivors to death. Rafael de Nogales visited weeks later and found "corpses barely covered with heaps of stone from which emerged here and there a bloody tress or an arm or leg gnawed on by hyenas".[9]

In the late 1980s there existed a refugee camp for Kurds who fled persecution by Saddam Hussein.[10]

It was also the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006.[11] In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past.[12]

Kızıltepe, with +48.8 °C (119.84 °F) on August 14, 1993, holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.[13]

Composition

There are 183 neighbourhoods in Kızıltepe District.[14] 10 of these (Atatürk, Bahçelievler, Cumhuriyet, Ersoylu, İpek, Koçhisar, Sanayi, Tepebaşı, Turgut Özal and Yeni Mahalle) formed the pre-2013 municipality of Kızıltepe.[15]

Notable People

Notes
  1. "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Kurdish and Turkish). p. 55.
  3. Thomas, David; Mallett, Alexander (2012). Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Vol. 4. Brill. p. 331.
  4. Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  5. "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  6. Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). Pak Ajans Yayincilik Turizm Ve Diş Ticaret Limited şirketi. p. 308. ISBN 9789944360944.
  7. Şafak, Yeni (2019-11-17). "Mardin Kızıltepe Seçim Sonuçları – Kızıltepe Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  8. "Turkey removes 15th pro-Kurdish mayor since March over alleged terror links". IPA NEWS. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  9. Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2017). "How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?". Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Berghahn Books. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78533-499-3.
  10. Relations, United States Congress Senate Committee on Foreign (1990). United States Policy Toward Iraq: Human Rights, Weapons Proliferation, and International Law : Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, June 15, 1990. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 67.
  11. "Turkey warns children off clashes". April 2006.
  12. "Curfew in 6 Southeastern Cities". Bianet. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  13. "Sıkça Sorulan Sorular - Meteoroloji Genel Müdürlüğü".
  14. Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  15. See 2012 populations of quarters of Kızıltepe, TÜİK.

Bibliography
  • Tan, Altan (2018), Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish), Pak Ajans Yayincilik Turizm Ve Diş Ticaret Limited şirketi, ISBN 9789944360944
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