2nd Day of Curfew in İdil
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Curfew declared yesterday (February 16) in İdil district of Şırnak province continues.
According to information Education and Science Laborers Union (Eğitim-Sen) Representative of İdil, İdris Kartal gave to bianet, a large part of residents has left the district upon the declaration of the curfew.
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Kartal saying, “People have gotten scared when they saw the tanks that it would be like in Cizre”, stated that only one or two thousand people have remained in the district.
8th and 12th grade students have been taken to Batman province. Some appointed teachers will stay at dorms attending classes.
No regulation has been made as to students other than 8th and 12th grades.
About İdil |
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İdil district of Şırnak province is a neighbour of Cizre, Midyat and Nusaybin districts and has land borders with Syria and the Iraq. It is located at a distance of 60 km to Mardin province and 24 km to Syrian border gate. The district has an area of 1,224 square km and is the district which has the greatest number of villages in Turkey. It has a population of 73,348 people. 46,865 of whom are from the country-side and the other 26,453 from the center. It is 14 km away from Şırnak Airport constructed in 2013. Agriculture Faculty of Şırnak University and İdil Vocational High school are also situated in the district. İdil district is the second place resided by Christians in Anatolia following Hatay. Church of Virgin Mary is located in the district. The demographic structure of the district has changed upon Muslim families began to settle in the district center after 1970s which had earlier been inhabited by the Assyrian population mainly. İdil sub-Governor: Ersin Tepeli |
(BK/TK)