Çiğdem (; ) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. The village is populated by Kurds of the Mizizex tribe and had a population of 164 in 2021.
History Girēmarā (today called Çiğdem) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had twenty-five households, who paid eighty-seven dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. In 1914, there were 250 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was populated by 26 Turoyo-speaking Christians in five families in 1966.
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