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Akçörten, Çermik
Akçörten is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çermik, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. Its population is 736 (2022). References Neighbourhoods in Çermik District {{Çermik-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çermik
Çermik (; ) is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 948 km2, and its population is 49,644 (2022). The mayor is Şehmus Karamehmetoğlu from the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the current kaymakam is Vahit Yılmaz. Çermik got its name from its natural spa. It was declared the Diyarbakir Thermal Tourism Center in October 1993. History Within the Ottoman Empire, Çermik was within the Kurdish Sanjak, sanjaks of the Diyarbekir Eyalet, Diyarbekir Eyelet. In 1925 the town came shortly under control of the Sheikh Said rebellion, rebels loyal to Sheikh Said. Demographics On the eve of the First World War, 12,418 Armenians lived in the kaza of Çermik: 2,000 in the center of Çermik and 10,000 in Çüngüş. They had five churches, one monastery and five schools. They were massacred during the Armenian genocide. The Jews, Jewish population left the town in 1948 when Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |