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	Mardin Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 835,173 (2000)¹.
		The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin.
		Unemployment and poverty are serious problems, and there has been considerable out migration to western and southern Turkey, although the reduction in political violence, coupled with infrastructure improvements such as a new civil airport at the provincial capital and improvements to the Ankara-Baghdad highway are helping ameliorate matters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mardin_Province (204 words)

	Mardin Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mardin Province is a province of (A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923) Turkey.
		The Mardin Province is inhabited by (A native or inhabitant of Turkey) Turks, (A member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state) Kurds and (A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia) Aramaic people.
		Mardin is an (A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia) Aramaic word (ܡܶܪܕܺܝܢ) and means "fortresses".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mardin_province.htm (177 words)

	Mardin
		It is the capital of Mardin province with 710,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		Mardin is the trade and administrative centre for its region.
		Mardin is dominated by a ruined Roman citadel which was rebuilt in medieval times.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/mardin.htm (268 words)

	Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication -- Turkey, 1994-1997
		Eighteen provinces, composing 15% of the total population and located primarily in southeastern and eastern Turkey, reported annual coverage rates of less than 80% (range: 8%-78%) for 1994-1997 (Figure_2).
		NID coverage differed by province and was less than 80% in six to 11 provinces during 1995-1997.
		Four of these provinces are small, and an AFP case would not be expected every year; however, the remaining 35 provinces would be expected to report at least 63 nonpolio AFP cases annually.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00051410.htm (1893 words)

	Mardin Province - Definition, explanation
		The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin.
		The Mardin Province is inhabited by Turks, Kurds and Aramaic people.
		Mardin is an Aramaic word (ܡܶܪܕܺܝܢ) and means "fortresses".
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/ma/mardin_province.php (125 words)

	Turkish Painting
		A residential Armenian archbishopric, a Chaldean bishopric, and a residential Syrian bishopric; moreover it is the headquarters of the Capuchin mission of Mardin and Amida.
		The population is computed at 25,000, of whom 15,500 are Mussulmans, the remainder being Christians.
		The Chaldean diocese, which is limited to the town of Mardin, has 750 faithful, 4 native priests, 1 parish, and 3 stations.
	www.geocities.com /korhan472004/history.htm (1324 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Apart from Istanbul...
		The province of Mardin, is a poetic city of Southeast Anatolia Region reflecting the impression as if the time had stopped with its present architectural, ethnographic, archeological, historic and visual merits.
		The province of Mardin hosts mosques, mausoleums, churches, monasteries and similar religious creations parallel to the different religious beliefs all of which are representing both artistic and historic values.
		The province of Mardin is located along the historical Silk Road and there are 5 inns and caravansaries in the city.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=172310 (766 words)

	Terrorism Worlds News - Full Text
		In another reminder of the province's violent legacy, a Belfast judge on Friday convicted an IRA guerrilla, Bernard Michael McGinn, of murdering Stephen Restorick, the last British soldier to be killed before the Irish Republican Army called off its war against British rule in July 1997.
		The head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the province's police force, called in a senior English police officer to head the Nelson murder probe, and is also drawing on the expertise of a senior FBI agent from the United States.
		Kosovo is a southern province of Serbia, the dominant of two federal republics in the former Yugoslavia.
	webhome.idirect.com /~mullen/Terror_Texts.htm (5373 words)

	Midyat - Tourism in Turkey
		Midyat, where there are Mardin like houses, rock mansions, gates with arches, Süryani churches with minaret like ascending gong towers, is reminding a Medieval city.City center is moved to 2 km.
		Province, which is an important place in connection with handicrafts is also attractive related with tourism.
		Province, which is a part of Upper Mesopotamia, is founded in Tur-Abidin (Turabdin) Region.
	www.tourisminturkey.net /iller/midyat/midyat.asp (280 words)

	Turkey (Spurl.net stream) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is the capital of Usak province with 320,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		It is the capital of the Trabzon Province with 980,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		It is the capital of Tokat province with 830,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
	stream.spurl.net /Turkey (1184 words)

	Turkey Hotel Guides, Turkey Hotels & Tours, Best hotels in Turkey
		The province of Gaziantep is one of the oldest culture centers of Southeastern Anatolian Region.
		The province of Muðla is located at the south of the Aegean Region and is founded at the skirts of the Asar (Hisar) Moun...
		The province of Niðde is located at the Cappadocian Region and the province is an important tourism center with its anci...
	www.turkeyhotelguides.com /resorts.asp (1778 words)

	Turkey: Letter to Minister Aksu calling for the abolition of the village guards (Human Rights Watch, 8-6-2006)
		In April 2004 former residents of Uluköy village near Kýzýltepe in Mardin province, who had been forced out of their homes in 1993 because they refused to join the village guards, were given permission by the local governor to return to their village.
		Village guards from Tepeköy in Þýrnak province are reportedly occupying Tepeli, a district of nearby Kuyulu village near Ýdil, and cultivating the surrounding fields.
		Hasan Keren, forced out of Cevizli village in Mardin province in 1994, reported to Mardin HRA that since returning to his home in 2000, he and his family had been subjected to attacks by village guards who were unlawfully using their land.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2006/06/08/turkey13578.htm (5106 words)

	LATEST FIGURES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The province centers with highest particulate mater concentration in the same period are; Rize, Zonguldak, Tokat, Mardin, and Afyon.
		Province centers with highest decreaese of sulphurdioxide (SO2) concentration are; Kocaeli (Gebze) (82 %), Eskiþehir (61 %), Bolu (Düzce) (59 %), Çorum (54 %), and Bursa (Province Center) (48 %).
		Province centers with highest decreaese of particulate matter are Muþ (88 %), Çankýrý (69 %), Erzurum (57 %), Bolu (Province Center) (43 %), and Kastamonu (39 %).
	www.die.gov.tr /english/SONIST/CEVRE/100696m.html (172 words)

	Mardin, Deyruz-Zafaran Monastery, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
		The Kasim Pasa Medresse, is also significant for its dome of beautiful stonework and the Ulu Mosque with its well-decorated minaret, is another sightseeing spot.
		The bridge which once connected the two parts of the city over the Tigris and the palace, are others.
		Marida was taken by the Seljuk Turks in the late 11th century and was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Selim I in 1516.
	www.adiyamanli.org /mardin.html (576 words)

	Nisibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nisibis (Nusaybin, province Mardin, south-eastern Turkey) is the ancient Mesopotamian city, which Alexander's successors refounded as Antiochia Mygdonia and is mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus against the Molon (Polybius, V, 51).
		In 297, by a treaty with Narseh, the province of Nisibis was acquired by the Roman Empire; in 363 it was ceded back to the Persians on the defeat of Julian.
		Later, the bishop of Nisibis was the ecclesiastic metropolitan of the Province of Beit-Arbaye.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Nisibis.htm (761 words)

	Gaziantep Province Article, GaziantepProvince Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gaziantep is a province in south-central Turkey, and is also thename of the province's capital and largest city (population 853,513 as of 2000).
		An important trading center since ancient times, the province is also one of Turkey's major manufacturing zones, and its agriculture is dominated by the growing of pistachio nuts.
		Originally known as Antep, the title gazi (meaning veteran in Turkish) was added to the province's and the provincial capital's name in 1921, due to its population's extraordinary courage during Turkish War of Independence.
	www.anoca.org /turkish/war/gaziantep_province.html (200 words)

	Palmer: The Mardin Syrian Orthodox Press
		Another group of Syrians, which worships in the Cathedral Church of St. Ephraim, in Suleimaniye, Aleppo, traces its origins to the province of Mardin in north-eastern Mesopotamia, an area where there are still some Syrian Orthodox villages, in spite of the fact that it is presently a part of Turkey.
		Indeed, sixteen of these books (and at least two others not published by Dar Mardin) are the product of his own labours; and he has edited or written introductions, some of them important contributions in their own right, for many of the rest.
		The Mardin Press has been refused ISBN and ISSN numbers, because it is in Syria; for this reason, and perhaps for others (Syria is justly famous for the thorough approach of its governmental bureaucracy), distribution is a problem.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol1No1/DarMardin.html (4345 words)

	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication - Turkey, 1994-1997
		Eighteen provinces, composing 15% of the total population and located primarily in southeastern and eastern Turkey, reported annual coverage rates of [is less than]80% (range: 8%-78%) for 1994-1997 (Figure 2).
		NID coverage differed by province and was [is less than]80% in six to 11 provinces during 1995-1997.
		The increase in 1997 occurred primarily because a larger number of provinces (26 in 1997 versus 10 in 1996) achieved a rate of [is greater than or equal to] 1 case.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_n6_v47/ai_20351539 (1410 words)

	Ethnologue: Turkey
		East central, mainly in Elazig, Bingol, and Diyarbakir provinces, upper courses of the Euphrates, Kizilirmaq, and Murat rivers.
		The majority are in the provinces of Hakkari, Siirt, Mardin, Agri, Diyarbakir, Bitlis, Bingol, Van, Adiyaman, and Mus.
		Rize in northeast, towns of Kemer, Atin, Artasen, Vitse, Arkab, Hopa, Sarp; and villages in Artvin, Sakarya, Kocaeli, and Bolu provinces.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Turk.html (1899 words)

	Bartın Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bartın is a small province in northern Turkey on the Black Sea, surrounding the city of Bartin.
		The town of Bartın contains a number of very old wooden houses which are no longer extant in other places.
		In Bartın province is the ancient port town of Amasra (Amastris).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bartin_Province (90 words)

	Amnesty International: Turkey campaign (1996)
		Süleyman Seyhan, a 58-year-old Kurdish villager, was watching breakfast television in his home in Dargeçit, province of Mardin, when village guards and soldiers came to arrest him.
		Despite the fact that several people witnessed the arrest and that he was reportedly seen by fellow detainees in the Dargeçit Gendarmerie Battalion Headquarters, the authorities have never acknowledged that Süleyman Seyhan was detained.
		He was detained at the Dargeçit Gendarmerie Battalion Headquarters and at Mardin Gendarmerie Regimental Headquarters and reportedly tortured.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/turkey/leaf7.htm (570 words)

	UNICEF Turkey / Press Centre 2004/08/24
		Currently 18,000 girls of primary school age are out-of-school in the Province of Mardin.
		In a survey launched under the UNICEF campaign to support girls’ education, it was found that 4,068 girls in İzmir and its vicinity were not enrolled at school for various reasons.
		Sabah newspaper reports from the province of Siirt where both the education system and the economy are is undergoing revolutionary changes.
	www.unicef.org /turkey/pc/ge49.html (418 words)

	CBS News \| Suicide Bombing In Turkey \| December 13, 1999 05:19:01
		Police in the province of Sirnak managed to foil a second attack, stopping and arresting a rebel before she set off two grenades strapped to her waist.
		Authorities warned that celebrations would not be allowed in past trouble spots in the southeast, including Diyarbakir, Batman, Sirnak and Mardin provinces.
		In Mardin province, police extinguished a traditional Nowruz fire lit by children in the town of Kiziltepe.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/03/20/world/main39691.shtml (482 words)

	HRA - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A number of cases opened in Southeast region against security personnel on charges of applying torture and rape against suspects while under custody escalated in the recent years.
		Case against a sergeant and seven policemen on charges of torturing and raping Kamile Cigci, 45, while she was under custody in Mardin's Nusaybin province.
		Trial against seven gendarmes on charges of causing the death of Mahmut Yilmaz, 16, by applying torture while he was under custody in Siirt.
	www.hr-action.org /archive4/1103ozg1.html (351 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Churches
		At Mardin still linger the remains of an old pagan community of Sun-worshippers who in 1762 (when the Turks finally decided to apply to them, too, the extermination that the Koran prescribes for pagans) preferred to hide under the outward appearance of Jacobite Christianity.
		They were, therefore, all nominally converted, and they conform the laws of the Jacobite Church, baptize, fast, receive all sacraments and Christian burial.
		Etchmiadzin is a monastery in the province of Erivan, between the Black and the Caspian Seas, near Mount Ararat (since 1828 Russian territory).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05230a.htm (12208 words)

	MIDYAT AND NUSAYBIN ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING PROJECT IS COMPLETED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A training project had been launched in Midyat and Nusaybin districts of Mardin Province jointly by the GAP Administration and World Wildlife Foundation (WWF-Turkey) with the support of to train teachers as trainers in environmental issues and build environmental awareness.
		The training is now over and over 100 teachers participating to this training will be given their certificates in a ceremony to be held in Mardin on 18 June 2003.
		The idea was to reach larger segments of population through the "training of trainers" and give sustenance to efforts to build and raise environmental awareness.
	www.gap.gov.tr /English/Basinbil/Bbil2003/bb231.html (318 words)

	KEO - HUMAN RIGHTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Oct 3 (AFP) - 10h58 - Prosecutors in Turkey have indicted hundreds of Turkish soldiers in a controversial case involving the torture and multiple rape of a Kurdish woman while she was in custody in 1993 and 1994, the plaintiff's lawyer said Friday.
		The woman, who is 31 and known only as S.E., said she was blindfolded when she was tortured and raped, leading the prosecution to charge all 405 soldiers who served during that period in two paramilitary stations in Mardin province in the southeast of the country where she claims she was abused.
		The first hearing in the case will be held on October 10 in Mardin.
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/humright/articles/hum-article-16.html (312 words)

	Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
		Background: In October 2006 villagers in Kuru village of Nusaybin district, in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin province disclosed that they had found a mass grave in a cave near their village.
		The authorities of the Mardin province launched their own investigation and concluded that the remains were from Roman times.
		This proposed joint investigation of the Mardin mass grave will be led by Professor Yusuf Halaço?lu, president of the Turkish Historical Society, and Professor David Gaunt of Södertörn University College in Sweden who is the project director for the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at the Salzburg Seminar.
	www.salzburgseminar.org /ihjr/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/27/Mass-Grave-Investigation-in-Mardin-Province--PRESS-RELEASE (377 words)

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