The inner castle stands within a military zone and is in the use of the border battalion command, so it is not a place a visitor can walk into.
It lies on the bank of the Tigris in the centre of Cizre. Two lines of wall run parallel to one another there, east to west; the northern one is close to the river and joins the outer walls on the east.
Getting there
- Access
- Reached by the city transport.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Şırnak as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 29.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (120 mm) and lightest in August (1 mm). Long-term means for 1970-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
