Kızıltepe

Kızıltepe (Kurdish: Qoser,[3] Ottoman Turkish: Koçhisar or Tell-Ermen (meaning "Armenian hill"),[4] Arabic: دنيصر) is a town in, and a district of Mardin Province of Turkey. As of 2014, the town had a population of 225,888.

For other uses, see Kızıltepe (disambiguation).
Kızıltepe
Qoser
Koçhisar Mosque in Kızıltepe
Kızıltepe
Qoser
Coordinates: 37°11′38″N 40°35′10″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMardin
Government
 • Elected MayorNilufer Elik Yılmaz (HDP)
 • District Governor and Acting MayorHuseyn Cam
Area
[1]
 • District1,416.37 km2 (546.86 sq mi)
Elevation
498 m (1,634 ft)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
147,585
 • District
228,356
 • District density160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Post code
47440
Websitewww.kiziltepe-bld.gov.tr

Government

In the local elections of March 2019 Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz was elected as Mayor.[5] But on 15 November 2019 she was dismissed and a trustee was appointed.[6] The current District Governor is Huseyn Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee.[6]

History

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

On 1 July 1915, during the 1915 genocide in Diyarbekir, there was a massacre in the village where its predominantly 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".[7]

In the late 1980s there existed a refugee camp for Kurds who fled persecution by Saddam Hussein.[8]

It was also the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006.[9] In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past.[10]

Kızıltepe, with +48.8 °C (119.84 °F) on August 14, 1993, holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.[11]

Notable People

References
  1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. Avcýkýran, Dr. Adem (ed.). "Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî" (PDF). Tirsik. p. 55. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  4. Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 4 (1200-1350), David Thomas, Alexander Mallett, page 331, 2012
  5. Şafak, Yeni (2019-11-17). "Mardin Kızıltepe Seçim Sonuçları – Kızıltepe Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  6. "Turkey removes 15th pro-Kurdish mayor since March over alleged terror links". IPA NEWS. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "Turkey warns children off clashes". April 2006.
  10. "Curfew in 6 Southeastern Cities". Bianet. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  11. "Sıkça Sorulan Sorular - Meteoroloji Genel Müdürlüğü".


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