Editing Tur Abdin (section)

=== Recent conflicts ===
On 10 February 2006 and the following day, large demonstrations took place in the city of [[Midyat]] in Tur Abdin. [[Muslim]]s angry about the [[Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy|Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons]] gathered in Estel, the new part of the city, and started to march towards the old part of Midyat (6&nbsp;kilometers away), where the Assyrians live. The mob was stopped by the police before reaching old [[Midyat]].

In 2008 a series of legal challenges were made against the [[Mor Gabriel Monastery|monastery of Mor Gabriel]]. Some local Kurdish villages sought to claim land on which the monastery had paid taxes since the 1930s as belonging to the villages, and made other accusations against the monastery. This led to considerable diplomatic and human rights action throughout Europe and within Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eclj.org/religious-autonomy/echr/cedh--la-turquie-a-exproprie-illegalement-un-monastere-edifie-au-ive-siecle#:~:text=The%20European%20Court%20of%20Human,violating%20the%20Foundation's%20property%20rights.|title=ECHR: Turkey Illegally Expropriated a Monastery Built in the 4th Century|website=European Centre for Law and Justice|date=3 October 2023}}</ref>