Magara
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| Province (il) : | Şırnak | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | İdil | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 17 ' N , 41 ° 34' E | |||
| Height : | 953 m | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 486 | |||
| Postal code : | 73300 | |||
| License plate : | 73 | |||
Mağara ( Kurmanji : Kiwex even Kivex or Kiwax) is an abandoned jesidischer hamlet in the southeast of Turkey . The hamlet is located about 32 km west of İdil in the district of the same name İdil in the province of Şırnak . Mağara was affiliated with the Bucak Haberli . The place is located in the Tur Abdin mountain range .
location
Mağara (Kiwex) is located approx. 500 m north directly on the so-called main street “Mardin Şırnak Yolu” (D380). The Mor Gabriel monastery is located in the north-west in the province of Mardin , about 5 km away.
History and population
The original name of the village is Kiwex or Kivex (Eng. Kiwekh or Kivekh). The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . Today, Mağara is mostly an abandoned settlement. It had an exclusively Yazidi population. Most of the Yazidis from the town fled to Germany.
In 1993 the place was evacuated and the Yazidis expelled. Up to the expulsion in 1993 about 1360 inhabitants (about 60 families) lived there.
In 1994 it was occupied by families of the village guards , who built a mosque there and changed the name of the place to “Islam Köyü” (“Islam village”).
In 2004 the village and the houses were transferred back. The village guards destroyed the village road and the water and electricity network before leaving the village.
The area is controlled by the Turkish military from a radar station above the village. The station must be reported to enter and exit the village.
At the beginning of June 2006 the village was shot at from the radar station.
The village guards have been demanding 70,000 euros from the former Yazidi residents for a long time.
Until today there has been no entry of real estate in the land register for the Yazidis from the village.
Not a single Yazidis lives permanently in the village.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The individual decision maker letter. (PDF) In: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees . March 2005, p. 7 , accessed August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Johannes Düchting: The Yezidi and their asylum treatment in Germany. (PDF) p. 8 , accessed on August 20, 2019 .