Eruh
Municipality in Siirt, Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
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