Çermik ( hy, Ջերմուկ, lit=hot springs, Jermuk; ku, Çermûk) is a town and district of

Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province ( tr, Diyarbakır ili, Zazaki: Suke Diyarbekır ku, Parêzgeha Amedê) is a province in southeastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15,355 km2 and its population is 1,528,958. The provincial capital is the cit ...

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. The population is 50,390 as of 2021. The mayor is Şehmus Karamehmetoğlu from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the current

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is Nazlı Demir. Çermik got its name from its natural spa. It was declared the Diyarbakir Thermal Tourism Center in October 1993.

History

Within the

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, Cermik was within the Kurdish

sanjaks Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

of the Diyarbekir Eyelet. In 1925 the town came shortly under control of the

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loyal to

Sheikh Said Sheikh Said of Palu, Elazığ, Palu ( ku, شێخ سەعید, translit=Şêx Seîd, 1865 – June 29, 1925) was a Kurds, Kurdish sheikh, the main leader of the Sheikh Said rebellion and a Sheikh of the Naqshbandi Tariqa, order. He was born in ...

. The

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population left the town in 1948 when

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was founded.

Attractions

The baths in the area draw many visitors and tourists from Turkey, mostly of neighboring provinces. Main attractions are the Haburman Bridge, Çeteci Abdullah Pasha Madrasa, Ulu Cami (the Grand Mosque) the Bandeler Fountain (''Bandeler Çesmesi'') and the ''Gelincik Dağı'' ( Mountain of Gelincik) The town also counts with a

Synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of wor ...

which dates back to the 1416, but it is not in use.

Notable people

Çeteci Abdullah Pasha Çeteci Abdullah Pasha ibn Ibrahim al-Husayni al-Jarmaki (also known as Abdullah Pasha al-Jatahji) was an Ottoman statesman. He served terms as the governor of Sivas, Diyarbekir, Rakka, Adana, Van, Erzurum, Kütahya, Aleppo and Damascus. Çeteci ...

, a former Vali of Diyarbakir.

References

Kurdish settlements in Turkey Populated places in Diyarbakır Province Towns in Turkey {{Diyarbakır-geo-stub