Kızıltepe

Kızıltepe is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,236 km2, and its population is 267,151 (2022). It is mainly populated by Kurds of the Kîkan tribe.
Government
In the local elections of March 2019 Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz was elected as Mayor. But on 15 November 2019 she was dismissed and a trustee was appointed. The current District Governor is Huseyn Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee.
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".
In the late 1980s there existed a refugee camp for Kurds who fled persecution by Saddam Hussein.
It was also the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006. In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past.
Kızıltepe, with +48.8 °C (119.84 °F) on August 14, 1993, holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.
Composition
There are 183 neighbourhoods in Kızıltepe District. 10 of these (Atatürk, Bahçelievler, Cumhuriyet, Ersoylu, İpek, Koçhisar, Sanayi, Tepebaşı, Turgut Özal and Yeni Mahalle) formed the pre-2013 municipality of Kızıltepe.
Akalın
Akça
Akçapınar
Akdoğan
Akkoç
Aktepe
Aktulga
Akyazı
Akyüz
Akziyaret
Alakuş
Alemdar
Alipaşa
Altıntoprak
Arakapı
Araköy
Arıklı
Arıtepe
Aşağıazıklı
Aslanlı
Ataköy
Atatürk
Atmaca
Ayaz
Bağrıbütün
Bahçelievler
Barış
Başak
Başdeğirmen
Bektaş
Belli
Beşevler
Beşik
Bozhüyük
Büyükayrık
Büyükboğaziye
Büyükdere
Büyüktepe
Çağıl
Çakır
Çamlıca
Çamlıdere
Çanaklı
Cantaşı
Çatalca
Çaybaşı
Çetinkaya
Çetinler
Çimenli
Çınarcık
Çıplak
Çitlibağ
Cumhuriyet
Damlalı
Demet
Demirci
Demirkapı
Demirler
Dikmen
Doğanlı
Dörtyol
Doyuran
Düğürk
Dunaysır
Dura
Ekinlik
Elbeyli
Elmalı
Erdem
Erikli
Eroğlu
Ersoylu
Esenli
Eskin
Eşme
Eymirli
Fındıktepe
Fırat
Göllü
Gözlüce
Güçlü
Gümüşdere
Güneştepe
Güngören
Günlüce
Gürmeşe
Hacıhasan
Hacıyusuf
Hakverdi
Halkalı
Harmandüzü
Haznedar
Hocaköy
İkikuyu
İkizler
Ilıcak
İnandı
İpek
Işıklar
Işıkören
Kahraman
Kalaycık
Karabent
Karakulak
Karakuyu
Karaman
Kaşıklı
Katarlı
Kayapınar
Kaynarca
Kengerli
Kılduman
Kilimli
Kırkkuyu
Kocalar
Koçhisar
Koçlu
Konuklu
Köprübaşı
Körsu
Küçükayrık
Küçükboğaziye
Küplüce
Mevlana
Mezopotamya
Odaköy
Ofis
Örencik
Ortaköy
Otluk
Rıhani
Şahkulubey
Sanayi
Sancarlı
Sandıklı
Sarıca
Saruhan
Selahattin Eyyubi
Şenyurt
Sevimli
Soğanlı
Sürekli
Tanrıverdi
Tarlabaşı
Taşlıca
Tatlıca
Tepebaşı
Timurçiftliği
Tıraşlı
Tosunlu
Turgut Özal
Tuzlaköy
Tuzluca
Üçevler
Ulaşlı
Ülkerköy
Uluköy
Uzunkaya
Yalınkılıç
Yamaç
Yamanlar
Yarımca
Yaşarköy
Yayıklı
Yaylım
Yedikardeş
Yeni Mahalle
Yenikent
Yeşilköy
Yeşiller
Yolaldı
Yoldere
Yolüstü
Yoncalı
Yüceli
Yukarıazıklı
Yüksektepe
Yumrucuk
Yumrutaş
Yurtderi
Yurtözü
Zergan
Ziyaret
Notable People
Selma Irmak (1971–), Kurdish politician
Mem Ararat, Kurdish singer
Notes
Bibliography
Assyrian communities in Turkey
Populated places in Mardin Province
Districts of Mardin Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province