Bilge ( ku, Zanqirt) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Mazıdağı Mazıdağı ( ku, Şemrex) is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 850 km2, and its population is 36,442 (2022). The town is populated by Kurds of the Dimilî tribe. Politics In the local elections of 2009 Ha ...

, Mardin Province in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The village is populated by

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

of the Barava tribe and had a population of 150 in 2021.

Wedding party massacre

On May 4, 2009, gunmen killed 44 people at a wedding party in Bilge, using grenades and automatic weapons.

References

Neighbourhoods in Mazıdağı District Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province {{Mardin-geo-stub