title: Kızıltepe
text: Kızıltepe (; ;  ) 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 tribe.
  
  Government 
  In the local elections of March 2019 Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz was elected as Mayor. But on 15 November 2019 she was dismissed and a trustee was appointed. The current District Governor is Huseyn Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee.
  
  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 was 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.
  
  Kızıltepe, with +48.8 °C (119.84 °F) on August 14, 1993, holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.
  
  Composition
  There are 183 neighbourhoods in Kızıltepe District. 10 of these (Atatürk, Bahçelievler, Cumhuriyet, Ersoylu, İpek, Koçhisar, Sanayi, Tepebaşı, Turgut Özal and Yeni Mahalle) formed the pre-2013 municipality of Kızıltepe.
  
   Akalın ()
   Akça ()
   Akçapınar ()
   Akdoğan ()
   Akkoç ()
   Aktepe () 
   Aktulga ()
   Akyazı ()
   Akyüz ()
   Akziyaret ()
   Alakuş ()
   Alemdar ()
   Alipaşa
   Altıntoprak ()
   Arakapı
   Araköy ()
   Arıklı ()
   Arıtepe ()
   Aşağıazıklı ()
   Aslanlı ()
   Ataköy ()
   Atatürk
   Atmaca ()
   Ayaz ()
   Bağrıbütün ()
   Bahçelievler
   Barış ()
   Başak ()
   Başdeğirmen ()
   Bektaş ()
   Belli ()
   Beşevler ()
   Beşik ()
   Bozhüyük ()
   Büyükayrık ()
   Büyükboğaziye ()
   Büyükdere ()
   Büyüktepe ()
   Çağıl ()
   Çakır ()
   Çamlıca ()
   Çamlıdere ()
   Çanaklı ()
   Cantaşı () 
   Çatalca ()
   Çaybaşı ()
   Çetinkaya ()
   Çetinler ()
   Çimenli ()
   Çınarcık ()
   Çıplak ()
   Çitlibağ ()
   Cumhuriyet
   Damlalı ()
   Demet ()
   Demirci ()
   Demirkapı ()
   Demirler ()
   Dikmen ()
   Doğanlı ()
   Dörtyol ()
   Doyuran ()
   Düğürk ()
   Dunaysır
   Dura ()
   Ekinlik ()
   Elbeyli ()
   Elmalı ()
   Erdem ()
   Erikli ()
   Eroğlu ()
   Ersoylu
   Esenli ()
   Eskin ()
   Eşme ()
   Eymirli ()
   Fındıktepe ()
   Fırat
   Göllü ()
   Gözlüce ()
   Güçlü ()
   Gümüşdere ()
   Güneştepe ()
   Güngören ()
   Günlüce ()
   Gürmeşe ()
   Hacıhasan ()
   Hacıyusuf ()
   Hakverdi ()
   Halkalı ()
   Harmandüzü ()
   Haznedar ()
   Hocaköy ()
   İkikuyu ()
   İkizler ()
   Ilıcak ()
   İnandı ()
   İpek
   Işıklar ()
   Işıkören ()
   Kahraman ()
   Kalaycık ()
   Karabent ()
   Karakulak ()
   Karakuyu ()
   Karaman 
   Kaşıklı ()
   Katarlı ()
   Kayapınar ()
   Kaynarca ()
   Kengerli ()
   Kılduman ()
   Kilimli ()
   Kırkkuyu ()
   Kocalar ()
   Koçhisar
   Koçlu ()
   Konuklu ()
   Köprübaşı ()
   Körsu ()
   Küçükayrık ()
   Küçükboğaziye ()
   Küplüce ()
   Mevlana
   Mezopotamya
   Odaköy ()
   Ofis ()
   Örencik ()
   Ortaköy ()
   Otluk ()
   Rıhani ()
   Şahkulubey
   Sanayi
   Sancarlı ()
   Sandıklı ()
   Sarıca ()
   Saruhan ()
   Selahattin Eyyubi
   Şenyurt ()
   Sevimli ()
   Soğanlı ()
   Sürekli ()
   Tanrıverdi ()
   Tarlabaşı ()
   Taşlıca ()
   Tatlıca ()
   Tepebaşı
   Timurçiftliği ()
   Tıraşlı ()
   Tosunlu ()
   Turgut Özal
   Tuzlaköy ()
   Tuzluca ()
   Üçevler ()
   Ulaşlı ()
   Ülkerköy ()
   Uluköy ()
   Uzunkaya ()
   Yalınkılıç ()
   Yamaç () 
   Yamanlar ()
   Yarımca ()
   Yaşarköy ()
   Yayıklı ()
   Yaylım ()
   Yedikardeş ()
   Yeni Mahalle
   Yenikent
   Yeşilköy ()
   Yeşiller ()
   Yolaldı ()
   Yoldere ()
   Yolüstü ()
   Yoncalı ()
   Yüceli ()
   Yukarıazıklı ()
   Yüksektepe ()
   Yumrucuk ()
   Yumrutaş ()
   Yurtderi ()
   Yurtözü ()
   Zergan
   Ziyaret ()
  
  Notable People 
   Selma Irmak (1971–), Kurdish politician
   Mem Ararat, Kurdish singer
  
  Notes
  
  Bibliography 
  
   
  Assyrian communities in Turkey
  Populated places in Mardin Province
  Districts of Mardin Province
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
  Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province