Erkent ( ku, Êrkend) is a village in the
Pervari District
Pervari District is a district of Siirt Province in Turkey which has the town of Pervari as its seat. The district had a population of 30,276 in 2021.
The district is fully Kurds, Kurdish.
Settlements
The district encompasses the seat of Per ...
of
Siirt Province in
Turkey.
The village had a population of 222 in 2022.
It is populated by
Kurds.
History
The village had 120 families in 1989 which fell to 70 families in 1990 due to pressure from the Turkish state to work as
village guards
Village guards ( tr, Korucular lit. "Rangers"), officially known as ''Türkiye Güvenlik Köy Korucuları'' ("Security Village Guards of Turkey"), are Gendarmerie General Command-aligned Border guards involved in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, mos ...
. The leaving families went for
Adana.
In September 1990, most of the male population was taken into custody and all except seven were later released. The village was evacuated and burned in 1993. It was later rebuilt.
Population
Population history from 1965 to 2022:
References
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Villages in Pervari District
Kurdish settlements in Siirt Province