Eruh ( ku, Dih) is a town and seat of
Eruh District
Eruh District is a district of Siirt Province in Turkey which has the town of Eruh as its seat. The district had a population of 18,101 in 2021. Its area is 1,061 km2.
Settlements
The district encompasses the town of Eruh, fifty-six villa ...
of
Siirt Province
Siirt Province, ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Sêrtê) is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast. The province borders Bitlis to the north, Batman to the west, Mardin to the southwest, Şırnak to the south, and Van to the east. It has an ar ...
of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
.
The town is populated by
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...
of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 8,895 in 2021.
Neighborhoods
Eruh town is divided into the three neighborhoods of Farih, Sarıgül and Dih.
Politics
In the local elections of March 2019 Cevher Çiftçi was elected mayor. The current District Governor is Ali Erdoĝan.
History
Eruh was the location of one of
two attacks by the
Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south ...
(PKK) on the 15 August 1984.
References
Populated places in Siirt Province
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Kurdish settlements in Siirt Province