Ефрем Сирин
Edip Aydın, firstborn son of Shem'un and Nisani Aydın, was born in the village of Gündükşükrü (), in the vicinity of Nusaybin (Nisibis), the town of St. Ephrem the Syrian, in the region of Tur 'Abdin, southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, on June 10, 1971.