Eruh

Eruh
Eruh
Municipality
	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

Eruh town is divided into the three neighborhoods of Farih, Sarıgül and Dih.^[6]

Politics

In the local elections of March 2019 Cevher Çiftçi was elected mayor.^[7] The current District Governor is Ali Erdoĝan.^[8]

History

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

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

^ 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). May 2013. 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.