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8 unusual facts about Midyat


Ali Atalan

Ali Atalan (born 1968 in Midyat, Turkey) is a German politician with the Left North Rhine-Westphalia (the state chapter of the national Left Party) and a former member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Gülgöze, Mardin

The Kurdish authority of Midyat was given orders to attack Gülgöze and Arnas at the same time.

Many refugees from other villages of the Tur Abdin arrived, including Habasnos, Midyat, Bote, Keferze,Kafro Eloyto, Mzizah and Urnas.

Midyat

After the so-called Gastarbeiter ('guest worker') era, though, commencing in the early 1960s, the city was soon to be nearly completely emptied from its native inhabitants who choose to leave for a better life offered in Western Countries.

Tur Abdin

On 10 February 2006 and the following day, large demonstrations took place in the city of Midyat in Tur Abdin.

The town of Midyat and the villages of Hah, Bequsyone, Dayro da-Slibo, Salah (with the old monastery of Mor Yaqub), Iwardo (with Mor Huschabo), Anhel, Kafro, Arkah (Harabale, with Dayro Mor Malke), Beth Sbirino, Miden (Middo), Kerburan, Binkelbe with Mor Samun Zayte and Beth Zabday (Azech) were all important Syriac Orthodox places among with countless other villages.

The mob was stopped by the police before reaching Midyat.

Yemişli

Yemişli, Midyat, a village in the district of Midyat, Mardin Province


Ay Lav Yu

A review in Didem Today states that you should see it because, The talented Sermiyan Midyat is writer, director and star of this culture-clash comedy from Turkey, and compares it favourably to Bride and Prejudice, A Good Year and My Life in Ruins.

Yusuf Akbulut

A native of Anıtlı (Hah), a village in Midyat district, Father Yusuf Akbulut was approached in October 2000 by reporters from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and questioned as to his views regarding the Armenian Genocide.


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