The monastery of Deir az-Zafaran (Aramaic ܕܝܪܐ ܕܟܘܪܟܡܐ Dayro d-Kurkmo, Turkish Deyrüzzaferân Manastırı), actually Dayro d-Mor Hananyo (Syrian-Aramaic ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪμ ܚμαμμα), is a Syrian Orthodox monastery (Jako bitic) monastery a few kilometers east of the southern Turkish city Mardin in the Tur Abdin Mountains on the edge of the Mesopotamian Plain. [Wikipedia]