Beşiri | |
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Coordinates: 37°55′16″N 41°17′31″E / 37.921°N 41.292°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Batman |
District | Beşiri |
Government | |
• Mayor | Sait Karabulut ( AKP) |
Population (2021) | 11,120 |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( TRT) |
Website | www.besiri.bel.tr |
Beşiri ( Kurdish: Qubînê, [1] Armenian: Բշերիկ, romanized: Bsherik, Chernik [2]) is a town and seat of the Beşiri District in the Batman Province of Turkey. [3] Its population is 11,120 (2021). [4] It was originally a village of Diyarbakır Province, it later became a district of Siirt Province and finally in 1990 a district of Batman. The mayor is Sait Karabulut ( AKP), elected in 2019. [5]
The town is divided into the neighborhoods of Bağdu, Behrem, Cumhuriyet (Texeriyê), Kobin, Mehmet Yatkın and Milli Egemenlik. [3]
The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople recorded 5,038 Armenians in the kaza before the First World War. They spoke Kurdish and had 15 churches and 14 schools. [2] 200 Syriacs lived in the town and 4,690 more in 27 surrounding villages. [2] The vast majority of the Armenians and Syriacs were massacred during the late Ottoman genocides. [2]