Eruh
{{Infobox Turkey place
|type=municipality| name = Eruh
|province=Siirt| image_skyline =File:Eruh district.jpg
| coordinates = {{coord|37|44|59|N|42|10|47|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| leader_party = AKP
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Cevher Çiftçi
| population_as_of = 2021
| website = {{URL| www.eruh.bel.tr | www.eruh.bel.tr }}
| official_name =
|district=Eruh|seat=| population_total = 8895
}}
Eruh ({{langx|ku-Latn|Dih}},{{Cite book |last=Avcıkıran |first=Adem |url= |title=Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî |year=2009 |page=57 |language=ku, tr}} {{langx|hy|Դեհ|translit=Dih}}) is a town and seat of Eruh District of Siirt Province of Turkey.{{Cite web |title=Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri |url=https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı |language=tr}}
The town is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 8,895 in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Sosyal ve kültürel yapı |url=http://eruh.meb.gov.tr/meb_iys_dosyalar/2016_03/29022548_sosyalkulturelyapi.pdf |access-date=19 October 2022 |pages=143 |language=tr}}{{Cite journal |last=Baluken |first=Yusuf |date=2021 |title=Aşiretten mîrliğe Buxtîler |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1604264 |journal=Kovara Kurdinameyê ya Navnetewî |volume=4 |pages=49}}{{Cite web |title=Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri |url=https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı |language=tr}}
Neighborhoods
Politics
In the local elections of March 2019 Cevher Çiftçi was elected mayor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.yenisafak.com/yerel-secim-2019/siirt-eruh-ilcesi-ittifak-secim-sonuclari|title=Siirt Eruh Seçim Sonuçları – 31 Mart 2019 Eruh İttifaka Göre Yerel Seçim Sonuçları|last=Şafak|first=Yeni|date=2019-11-14|website=Yeni Şafak|language=tr-TR|access-date=2019-11-13}} The current District Governor is Ali Erdoĝan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eruh.gov.tr/kaymakam|title=Kaymakam|website=www.eruh.gov.tr|access-date=2019-11-13}}
History
Eruh was the location of one of two attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the 15 August 1984.{{Cite book|title=Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue|last1=Casier|first1=Marlies|last2=Jongerden|first2=Joost|date=2010-09-13|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136938672|pages=131|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Թուրքական Էրուհ քաղաքի հայկական եկեղեցին վերածում են իսլամական դպրոցի |url=https://armenpress.am/arm/news/717268/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=armenpress.am |date=May 2013 |language=hy}}
Demographics
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.{{Cite web |title=Kaza Eruh / Bohtan / Botan |url=https://virtual-genocide-memorial.de/region/the-six-provinces/bitlis-vilayet/sancak-slirt/kaza-eruh-bohtan-botan/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Virtual Genocide Memorial |language=en-US}} They were slaughtered by the forces commanded by Halil Kut and Djevdet Bey during the Armenian genocide.
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.{{Cite journal |last=BabaoğLu |first=Resul |date=2018-01-01 |title=CUMHURİYET İDARESİNE GEÇİŞ SÜRECİNDE SİİRT'TE DEMOGRAFİK GÖSTERGELER |url=http://www.johschool.com/Makaleler/259130195_19.%20R.%20Babao%C4%9Flu%20-%20Cumhuriyet%20%C4%B0daresine%20G%C3%B6re.529-563..pdf |journal=Journal of History School |language=en |volume=11 |issue=XXXIV |pages=529–563 |doi=10.14225/Joh1285 |issn=1308-5298}}
References
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Category:Populated places in Siirt Province
Category:Kurdish settlements in Siirt Province
Category:District municipalities in Turkey
Category:Former Armenian communities in Siirt Province
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