Duruca (; ) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province, Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. Its population is 2,664 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). The village is populated by Kurds of the Kikan and Mizizex tribes.
History Kartwīn (today called Duruca) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had two households, who did not pay any dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.
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