Nusaybin

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Nusaybin (Turkey)
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Cityscape of Nusaybin
Basic data
Province (il) : Mardin
Coordinates : 37 ° 5 '  N , 41 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 4 '43 "  N , 41 ° 13' 5"  E
Height : 500  m
Residents : 85,498 (2010)
Telephone code : (+90) 482
Postal code : 47300
License plate : 47
Structure and administration (as of 2012)
Mayor : Ayşe Gökkan ( BDP )
Website:
Nusaybin County
Residents : 112,790 (2010)
Surface: 1,169 km²
Population density : 96 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : Murat Girgin
Website (Kaymakam):
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The Church of Jacob of Nisibis

Nusaybin ( Kurdish Nisêbîn , Aramaic : ܢܨܝܒܝܢ , Niṣībīn) is a city in the Nusaybin district of the Turkish province of Mardin on the Turkish-Syrian border.

geography

The city has 88,047 inhabitants and the district of the same name 115,072 (as of 2012). In Nusaybin there is a road border crossing to the neighboring Syrian city of Al-Qamishli . The railway line connecting the two cities, part of the Baghdad Railway , is out of service for cross-border traffic. However, Nusaybin itself is still served by freight trains operated by the Turkish railways.

history

The name of the city was Nisibis in ancient times (for ancient and medieval history, see there). At that time Nisibis was fought over between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire . Well-known are the Doctor of the Church Ephrem the Syrians (306–373) and Saint Jacob of Nisibis , who worked as a bishop and probably died in 338 AD. The city had belonged to the Sassanid Empire since 363 , who expelled the inhabitants and replaced them with Persians. In 591 Nisibis fell again to Ostrom and was then conquered by Muslim Arabs in 639/640 . In 1515 the city became part of the Ottoman Empire and has belonged to Turkey since 1920. Today mainly Kurds and a minority of Arameans and Arabs live in the city.

History from 2015

After the end of Turkey's armistice with the PKK, curfews and heavy fighting between the PKK and the Turkish army broke out in Nusaybin. The supply of water and electricity in Nusaybin has been temporarily suspended. Several residential areas were demolished. A total of 50,000 people are said to have lost their homes.

Political

In the 2014 local elections, Sara Kaya and Cengiz Kök were elected co-mayors of Nusaybin by the BDP with 91% of the vote. You were replaced by an administrator in January 2017. They were taken into custody on January 13, 2017 and pre-trial detention was imposed on January 26, 2017. Kök was released from custody in December 2017, subject to conditions.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 22, 2012
  2. ↑ Hartmut Leppin : Ephraim the Syrian: "Carmen Nisibenum 10" In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 8, 2016.
  3. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Nusaybin in the southeast of Turkey: dead silence in a devastated city . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 8, 2018]).
  4. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Nusaybin in the southeast of Turkey: dead silence in a devastated city . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 13, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Nusaybin Co-Mayor Sara Kaya Unseated . In: Bianet - Bagimsiz Iletisim Agi . ( bianet.org [accessed July 16, 2018]).
  6. ↑ evrensel.net from December 15, 2017

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