Based in Silopi, Turkey, near the Iraqi border, from July to October 1991, these ground forces were soon withdrawn to avoid entanglement in the local Turkish-PKK conflict and because it was decided that the US Air Force presence at Incirlik constituted an adequate deterrent to Iraqi attempts at encroaching on the Kurdish autonomous zone.
The Khabur River, which carries the same name as the frontier gate, crosses in the district territory and joins the Tigris here.
The Şırnak death well trials are trials in Turkey in relation to the unsolved murders of 55 people in the mid-1990s in the area of Silopi and Cizre in Şırnak Province.
The Headman's Pyjamas (Jessica Lutz) Village men in a desolate, war-torn border town near Iraq in 1993 maintain impeccable standards of civility towards a Dutch journalist who smuggles herself into their lives.
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