Eruh | |
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  Eruh Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°44′59″N 42°10′47″E / 37.74972°N 42.17972°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Siirt |
| District | Eruh |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Cevher Çiftçi (AKP) |
| Population (2021) | 8,895 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Website | www.eruh.bel.tr |
Eruh (Kurdish: Dih,[1] Armenian: Դեհ, romanized: Dih[2]) is a town and seat of Eruh District of Siirt Province of Turkey.[3]
The town is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 8,895 in 2021.[4][5][6]
Neighborhoods[edit]
Eruh town is divided into the three neighborhoods of Farih, Sarıgül and Dih.[6]
Politics[edit]
In the local elections of March 2019 Cevher Çiftçi was elected mayor.[7] The current District Governor is Ali Erdoĝan.[8]
History[edit]
Eruh was the location of one of two attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the 15 August 1984.[9]
In 2013, the Armenian St. John's Church (Surb Hovhannes) in the Dih district of Eruh, Turkey, was turned into an Islamic religious school for girls.[10]
Demographics[edit]
According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, in 1914 there were 3,393 Armenians in the kaza of Eruh, including 2,412 in Eruh proper.[2] They were slaughtered by the forces commanded by Halil Kut and Djevdet Bey during the Armenian genocide.[2]
The 1927 Turkish census gives a population of 14,910 for the district. 14,451 of them declared being native Kurdish speakers. 14,482 declared being Muslims.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Kurdish and Turkish). p. 57.
- ^ a b c "Kaza Eruh / Bohtan / Botan". Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "Sosyal ve kültürel yapı" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 143. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ Baluken, Yusuf (2021). "Aşiretten mîrliğe Buxtîler". Kovara Kurdinameyê ya Navnetewî. 4: 49.
- ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Şafak, Yeni (2019-11-14). "Siirt Eruh Seçim Sonuçları – 31 Mart 2019 Eruh İttifaka Göre Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ "Kaymakam". www.eruh.gov.tr. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ Casier, Marlies; Jongerden, Joost (2010-09-13). Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue. Routledge. p. 131. ISBN 9781136938672.
- ^ "Թուրքական Էրուհ քաղաքի հայկական եկեղեցին վերածում են իսլամական դպրոցի". armenpress.am (in Armenian). Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ^ BabaoğLu, Resul (2018-01-01). "CUMHURİYET İDARESİNE GEÇİŞ SÜRECİNDE SİİRT'TE DEMOGRAFİK GÖSTERGELER" (PDF). Journal Of History School. 11 (XXXIV): 529–563. doi:10.14225/Joh1285. ISSN 1308-5298.