Kızıltepe

Kızıltepe (Turkish pronunciation: [kɯˈzɯɫtepe]; Kurdish: Qoser;[2] Ottoman Turkish: Tell-Ermen, lit. 'Armenian hill' [3]) is a town in the Kızıltepe District of Mardin Province in Turkey.[4] The town is mainly populated by Kurds of the Kîkan tribe and had a population of 184,124 in 2021.[5][1]

For other uses, see Kızıltepe (disambiguation).
Kızıltepe
Municipality
Koçhisar Mosque in Kızıltepe
Koçhisar Mosque in Kızıltepe
Kızıltepe is located in Turkey
Kızıltepe
Kızıltepe
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°11′38″N 40°35′10″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMardin
DistrictKızıltepe
Government
 • Elected MayorNilufer Elik Yılmaz (HDP)
Elevation
498 m (1,634 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
184,124
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)
Websitewww.kiziltepe-bld.gov.tr

Neighborhoods

Kızıltepe is divided into the eighteen neighborhoods of Atatürk, Bahçelievler, Cumhuriyet, Dunaysır, Ersoylu, Fırat, İpek, Koçhisar, Mevlana, Mezopotamya, Sanayi, Selahattin Eyyubi, Şahkulubey, Tepebaşı, Turgut Özal, Yeni Mahalle, Yenikent and Zergan.[4]

Government

In the local elections of March 2019 Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz was elected as Mayor.[6] But on 15 November 2019 she was dismissed and a trustee was appointed.[7] The current District Governor is Huseyn Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee.[7]

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".[8]

In the late 1980s there existed a refugee camp for Kurds who fled persecution by Saddam Hussein.[9]

It was also the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006.[10] In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past.[11]

Kızıltepe, with +48.8 °C (119.84 °F) on August 14, 1993, holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.[12]

Notable People

Notes
  1. "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  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. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). p. 308. ISBN 9789944360944.
  6. Şafak, Yeni (2019-11-17). "Mardin Kızıltepe Seçim Sonuçları – Kızıltepe Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  7. "Turkey removes 15th pro-Kurdish mayor since March over alleged terror links". IPA NEWS. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. "Turkey warns children off clashes". April 2006.
  11. "Curfew in 6 Southeastern Cities". Bianet. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  12. "Sıkça Sorulan Sorular - Meteoroloji Genel Müdürlüğü".

Bibliography
  • Tan, Altan (2018), Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish), ISBN 9789944360944
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