Cizre (Turkish: [ˈdʒizɾe]) is a city in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. It is located on the river Tigris by the Syria–Turkey border...
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The December 2015–February 2016 Cizre curfew was the second Turkish military curfew in Cizre since the onset of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict after the...
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The Cizre Dam is a dam being constructed on the Tigris River north of Cizre, Turkey. The Cizre Dam is to be built in conjunction and downstream of the...
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Ümit Cizre (born 1946) is a Turkish academic, and a leading expert on civilian-military relations in Turkey. She is a professor of political science and...
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(2015–present), in September Turkish security forces launched an operation in Cizre. The Turkish security forces sealed off the city and placed a curfew for...
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Bohtan (redirect from Cizre Botan)
Botan, Cizre-Botan, Bokhtan) was a medieval Kurdish principality in the Ottoman Empire centered on the town of Jazirah ibn 'Omar (modern Cizre also known...
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The Cizre Bridge (Turkish: Cizre Köprüsü, Kurdish: Pira Cizîrê) is a 220 m (720 ft) long deck-arch bridge, carrying the D.400 across the Tigris river in...
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traditional region known today as Upper Mesopotamia or the smaller region of Cizre Al-Jazira (caliphal province), an Umayyad and Abbasid province encompassing...
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Varlık (Kurdish: Gijal) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Elîkan tribe and had...
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Çağıl (Kurdish: Sirsirk) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Meman tribe and had...
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Seyrantepe (Kurdish: Bilinda Darê) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Tayan tribe...
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Yalıntepe (Kurdish: Bêdar) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman tribes...
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Cizre District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. Its population was 159,754 in 2022. Its area is 444 km2. The seat of the district is the...
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explosion killed one civilian in Cizre on 5 August. On 7 August, Turkish Police clashed with PKK and YDG-H forces in Silopi, Cizre and Uludere and PKK-affiliated...
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The 2016 Cizre bombing was a suicide bombing by PKK member Mustafa Aslan in Cizre, Turkey. The assailant used a car bomb to attack a police checkpoint...
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Koçtepe (Kurdish: Tirehfêrik) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Omerkan tribe...
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Selahattin Demirtaş (section March on Cizre)
authorities imposed a curfew on the city of Cizre HDP parliamentarians around Demirtas went on a march on Cizre, but were prevented from entering the city...
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Bedir Khan Beg (category People from Cizre)
Bitlis Castle and descended from Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Bedir Khan was born in Cizre (now in Turkey) of Azizan family. He became the Mir of the Emirate of Botan...
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the site, it may be considered the representative of the modern Jezireh (Cizre in southeastern Turkey), which commands the passes from the low country...
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patriarch Flavianus Michael Malke (1858–1915), Syrian Catholic eparch of Cizre martyred during a Turkish massacre of Christians This disambiguation page...
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presence of Sufi discourse and Kurdish nationalism. The Mem-u Zin Mausoleum in Cizre province has become a tourist attraction. It tells the tragic story of two...
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Kurtuluş (Kurdish: Mûsîrê) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and...
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Düzova (Kurdish: Hoser) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Meman tribe and had...
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and east of Turkey. Imam Ali Mosque, Najaf, Iraq Al-Karak, Jordan[where?] Tomb of Noah located inside the courtyard of Nebi Nuh Mosque, Cizre, Turkey...
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Sophene (Diyarbakır) Zabdicene or Bezabde (Gozarto d'Qardu or Jazirat Ibn or Cizre) Basenia (Bayazid) Moxoene (Muş) Nephercerta (Miyafarkin) Artemita (Van)...
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journalist and news editor for Azadiya Welat in the southeastern Turkish town Cizre, Şırnak Province, Turkey, was shot on January 22, disappeared on January...
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21" and longitude: 42°28'16.03". It is a peak northeast of the town of Cizre in south-east Turkey, at the headwaters of the Tigris River, near the modern...
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Tepeönü (Kurdish: Batil) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Meman tribe and had...
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Uğur (Kurdish: Tilebêr; Syriac: Tel-Bal) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Aluwa...
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Erdem (Kurdish: Dimbilîya) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Meman tribe and had...
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