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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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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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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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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Kuştepe (Kurdish: Basisk) 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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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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Aşağıçeşme (Kurdish: Bîr Yakup) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Meman tribe...
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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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Sulak (Kurdish: Nêrhib) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara tribe and had...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Korucu (Kurdish: Derbacîya) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Elîkan and Meman...
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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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Yeşilyurt (Kurdish: Cinibir) 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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Çavuşköy (Kurdish: Ernebat) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman...
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Kebeli (Kurdish: Babil) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Omerkan tribe and had...
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Uğur (Kurdish: Tilebêr) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Aluwa tribe and had...
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Katran (Kurdish: Bazift) is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kiçan, Meman and Xêrikan...
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