Kızıltepe | |
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 Map showing Kızıltepe District in Mardin Province | |
  Kızıltepe Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates:37°11′38″N40°35′10″E / 37.19389°N 40.58611°E /37.19389; 40.58611 | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Mardin |
Area | 1,236 km2 (477 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 498 m (1,634 ft) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 267,151 |
| • Density | 216.1/km2 (559.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Area code | 0482 |
| Website | www |
Kızıltepe (Turkish pronunciation:[kɯˈzɯɫtepe];Kurdish:Qoser;[2]Ottoman Turkish:تال ارمين,romanized: Tell Armen,lit. 'Armenian hill')[3] is a municipality anddistrict ofMardin Province, Turkey.[4] Its area is 1,236 km2,[5] and its population is 267,151 (2022).[1] It is mainly populated byKurds of the KîkanKurdish tribe.[6]
In the local elections of March 2019Nilüfer 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 Hüseyin Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee.[8]
The town has a historic 13th centurygreat Friday mosque built by theArtuqids.
On 1 July 1915, during the1915 genocide in Diyarbekir, there was a massacre in the village where its Christian population, the Assyrians were 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 bySaddam Hussein.[10]
It was also the scene of clashes between protestingKurds and Turkish riot police in 2006.[11] In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past.[12]
The highest temperature ever recorded in Kızıltepe is 49.6 °C (121.28 °F) on 25 July 2025.[13]
There are 183neighbourhoods 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]
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