Söğütlü (; ) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Midyat, Mardin Province, Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. Its population is 2,208 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). The village is populated by Kurds of the Kercoz and Omerkan tribes and by the Mhallami. It is located in the historic region of Bēth Muḥallam in Tur Abdin.
History Kandirib (today called Söğütlü) was historically inhabited by Syriac Christians. The calligrapher Daniel of Kandirib is mentioned in the Life of Mar Simeon of the Olives (). In , the Christian population of Bēth Muḥallam, including the village of Kandirib, converted to Islam to escape persecution. From the 1910s onwards, many Mhallamis from the village migrated to Lebanon for economic reasons, while some Mhallami and Kurdish families settled in the village afterwards. The Kurdish families came from Kerboran and neighbouring villages.
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