Eruh | |
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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]
Eruh town is divided into the three neighborhoods of Farih, Sarıgül and Dih. [6]
In the local elections of March 2019 Cevher Çiftçi was elected mayor. [7] The current District Governor is Ali Erdoĝan. [8]
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]
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]