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Flag of Midyat - Image by Jens Pattke, 16 February 2013
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The municipality of Midyat (105,542 inhabitants in 2012, 60,4256 in the town proper; 10,543 ha) is located east of Mardin.
Ivan Sache, 6 March 2016
The flag of Midyat is white with the municipality's emblem in the middle. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality": "Kuruluŝ", means "Foundation".
The emblem of the municipality features a mosque, a peacock and a church, representing Muslims, Yezidis and Syriac Orthodox Christians, respectively (photos, photos).
The played-up idea of multiculturalism, unfortunately belongs to the past.
All the Yezidis, followers of the Peacock Angel (Tawsi Melek, the most important of the seven Great Angels, considered by the Yezidis of emanations of the Supreme God; presentation), left a long time ago.
Thirty years ago the residents included around 5000 Christians, mainly adherents of the Syriac Orthodox faith (Assyrians), an offshoot of Orthodox Christianity which split from the mainstream in the 6th century. Since then migration to work in northern Europe, combined with the troubles in the south-east, has forced numbers down until there are only about 20 original families still living in the old Christian quarter.
[Today's Zaman, 20 January 2012]
Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 6 March 2016