On 10 February 2006 and the following day, large demonstrations took place in the city of Midyat in Tur Abdin.
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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.
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The mob was stopped by the police before reaching Midyat.
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Diyar Rabī‘a encompasses the upper reaches of the river Khabur and its tributaries, i.e. the regions of Tur Abdin and Beth Arabaye, as well as both shores of the river Tigris from the vicinity of Jazirat ibn Umar in the north to the boundary with Iraq in the area of Tikrit in the south, including the lower reaches of the Upper Zab and Lower Zab.
Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek (born January 1, 1942 in Kafro `Elayto, Tur Abdin, Turkey; died in Düsseldorf, Germany, on October 29, 2005) was the first Syriac Orthodox Church archbishop for Central Europe.
In the summer of 1915, during the height of the Assyrian Genocide, in the rural region Tur Abdin, Malke, who was in Azakh at the time, returned to Gazarta upon hearing news of an impending massacre against the Christians there and refused to flee despite being advised so by local Muslim leaders.
Many refugees from other villages of the Tur Abdin arrived, including Habasnos, Midyat, Bote, Keferze,Kafro Eloyto, Mzizah and Urnas.