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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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Bohtan (redirect from Cizre Botan)
in the Ottoman Empire centered on the town of Jazirah ibn 'Omar (modern Cizre also known as Cizîra Botan (Jazira Botan)) in southeastern Anatolia. The...
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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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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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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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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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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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April 10, 1998, in Tehran) is an Iranian volleyball player who plays for Cizre Belediyespor and Iran men's national volleyball team. He has also been in...
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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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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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Kocapınar (Kurdish: Emerîn, Syriac: ‘Amīrīn) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the...
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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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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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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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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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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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Yeşilyurt (Kurdish: Cinibrî) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Meman tribe and...
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Bozalan (Kurdish: Behmor) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Tayan tribe and had...
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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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Çatalköy (Kurdish: Sitevrik) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kiçan and Meman...
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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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Ulaş (Kurdish: Zêvîk) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kiçan and Meman tribes...
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Mustafa Armağan (born February 24, 1961 in Cizre, Şırnak) is a conservative, Islamist Turkish writer and conspiracy theorist. He is known for the historical...
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