Why visit Kızıltepe
Townapedia lists 3 museums and landmarks, 3 parks and trails, 6 places to eat, 2 places to stay and 1 attraction in and around town.
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About Kızıltepe
Kızıltepe (Turkish pronunciation: [kɯˈzɯɫtepe]; Kurdish: Qoser; Ottoman Turkish: تال ارمين, romanized: Tell Armen, lit. 'Armenian hill') is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,236 km2, and its population is 267,151 (2022). It is mainly populated by Kurds of the Kîkan Kurdish tribe.
From the Wikipedia article Kızıltepe (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do1
Museums and landmarks3
Parks, trails and playgrounds3
Sanat merkezi
Park · 1.7 km
Yapılacak bilim ve teknoloji merkezi için kullanılacak alan.
Restaurants and cafes6
Yörem Restaurant
Restaurant · 1.7 km
Hastane Caddesi
Mo-Su 07:00-22:00
History
The town has a historic 13th century great Friday mosque built by the Artuqids.
On 1 July 1915, during the 1915 genocide in Diyarbekir, there was a massacre in the village where its Christian population, the Assyrians were murdered by militia and Kurds. About seventy women were raped in the church, then put to death. Men, women, and children were killed indiscriminately and many victims were decapitated. After the massacre, Kurdish women stabbed any survivors to death. Rafael de Nogales visited weeks later and found "corpses barely covered with heaps of stone from which emerged here and there a bloody tress or an arm or leg gnawed on by hyenas".
In the late 1980s there existed a refugee camp for Kurds who fled persecution by Saddam Hussein.
It was also the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006. In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Kızıltepe is 49.6 °C (121.28 °F) on 25 July 2025.
From the History section of Kızıltepe on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to stay2
Churches and places of worship107
Hacı Abdurrahman Enes Camii
Place of worship · Sunni · 2.6 km
694 A Sokak, Mardin
Shopping5
Gas and EV charging5
Schools, colleges and libraries12
Healthcare63
Yılmaz Eczanesi
Clinic and pharmacy · 1.5 km
7/E Mardin Caddesi, Kızıltepe/Mardin
Map of Kızıltepe
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Getting there and nearby towns
Mardin Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar Airport (MQM) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 6 km away.
- Akyazı 3 km south, about 3 min by car
- Üçevler 4 km east, about 4 min by car
- Karakuyu 4 km southwest, about 4 min by car
- Elbeyli 6 km east, about 6 min by car
- Akziyaret 6 km west, about 6 min by car
- Eşme 7 km southeast, about 7 min by car
- Günlüce 7 km south, about 7 min by car
- Gyundyukoru 8 km southwest, about 8 min by car
- Mardin 20 km northeast, about 20 min by car
- Diyarbakır 87 km north, about 1 h 30 min by car
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- Mapillary (see each image): photos
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Mardin-Kızıltepe, Nazlı Anşin, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Koçhisar Ulu Camii, Mustafa.cay.90, CC BY-SA 4.0
- ISS031-E-134834 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS030-E-281610 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS045-E-55949 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS020-E-43080 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS044-E-54972 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS044-E-52947 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS045-E-55950 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS031-E-134833 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS030-E-281611 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS045-E-55951 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS044-E-52946 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS054-E-40703 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS044-E-54971 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS054-E-40705 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS054-E-40704 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS054-E-41597 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- Mardin Airport with the old city of Mardin in the background, Oystercard, CC BY-SA 4.0
- MARDIN CONTROL TOWER - panoramio, Kayhan ERTUGRUL, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mardin Airport, Oystercard, CC BY-SA 4.0
- MARDIN HAVAALANI Airport - panoramio, Kayhan ERTUGRUL, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mardin Airport Departures Hall, Oystercard, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, sessiznotalar, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, sessiznotalar, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, sessiznotalar, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, sessiznotalar, CC BY-SA 4.0
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