Fırat () is a neighbourhood in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds of the Dudêran and Kiçan tribes.
History Dashta-Dere (today called Fırat) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. It was located in the Cizre kaza in the Mardin sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . It was populated by 100 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. Amidst the Sayfo, all of the 20 Syriac families who inhabited the village were killed. Kurds occupied the village, where they kept a number of Christians hostages. Syriacs from Azakh attacked the Kurds at Dashta-Dere in October 1915 in order to release the hostages.
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