Our compilation for Şırnak, not an official route. Cizre carries most of it, and everything there stands close together in the old town: the Red Medrese, laid in square red bricks on the remains of the city wall and named for that material, restored and reopened for use as a mosque; and the Katip Yusuf house, a single-storey courtyard house of cut basalt, its courtyard floor still on its original paving.
The town's museum is on the list but not yet open. The ministry says structural problems are being dealt with, the display areas rearranged, and that it will open when that work is finished; it will be inside the inner citadel when it does.
Güçlükonak, north-west along the Tigris, holds two more. The building at Damlarca village is recorded as a mosque but is known to everyone as the Faki Teyran medrese, after a figure whose byname — of the birds — attached to him in his own lifetime. Nearby, on the river bank, a hot spring runs at sixty-seven degrees with a thermal hotel on the site.
The Beyaz Köprü, out towards Uludere, is the furthest point and stands alone. Its west side wall has been carried away entirely by floodwater, and nothing is known about the period it belongs to. The sources say nothing about security or road conditions in this province, and neither do we. What each place is, and who says so, is on its own page.
