Savur (; ; ), meaning “mountain ridge” in Syriac and formerly known as Savor, is a municipality and

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Mardin Province Mardin Province (; ; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in Turkey. Its area is 8,780 km2, and its population is 870,374 (2022). The largest city in the province is Kızıltepe, while the capital Mardin is the second largest ci ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. Its area is 962 km², and its population is 24,821 (2022).

Demographics

According to the

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, 1,032 lived in Savur on the eve of World War I. They had one church and two schools. They were massacred during the

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. The

Agha Petros Petros Elia of Baz (; 1 April 1880 – 2 February 1932), better known as Agha Petros (), was an Assyrian military leader and statesman, best known for his role during World War I. He is considered a national hero for the Assyrians and other ...

mentions an Assyrian population of 200. Today, the town is populated by

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and

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

Politics

In the

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of March 2019, Gülistan Öncü of the pro-minority HDP was elected mayor. On 15 November 2019, she was detained due to an investigation related to

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

. She was dismissed the following day, and District Governor Bayram Türker was appointed as a trustee.

Composition

There are 41

neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

in Savur District: * Akyürek () * Armutalan () * Bağyaka () * Başağaç () * Başkavak () * Bengisu * Çınarönü () * Dereiçi () *

Durusu Durusu or Terkos (, ''Derkos''; also Δέλκη ''Delke'', Δέλκος ''Delkos'', and Δέρκοι ''Derkoi'') is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Arnavutköy, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 746 (2022). It lies ...

() * Evkuran () * Gölbaşı * Harmantepe () * Hisarkaya () * İçören * İşgören () * Kaplan *

Karaköy Karaköy (), the modern name for the old Galata, is a commercial quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, located at the northern part of the Golden Horn mouth on the European side of Bosphorus. Karaköy is one of the oldest and mo ...

() * Kayacıklar () * Kayatepe (Mineyzil) * Kırbalı () * Kırkdirek () * Kocahüyük () * Köprülü () * Koşuyolu * Ormancık () * Pınardere () * Safa * Sancaklı () * Şenocak () * Serenli () * Seydin * Soylu () * Sürgücü () * Taşlık () * Tokluca * Üçerli () * Üçkavak * Yaylayanı () * Yazır () * Yenilmez * Yeşilalan ()

Notable people

Aziz Sancar Aziz Sancar (; born 8September 1946) is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich fo ...

, Turkish scientist of Arab origin and second Turkish

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References

Populated places in Mardin Province Districts of Mardin Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey Tur Abdin Assyrian communities in Turkey Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province Arab settlements in Mardin Province Former Armenian communities in Mardin Province {{Mardin-geo-stub