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Siirt (Arabic: سِعِرْد Siʿird; Armenian: Սղերդ s'gherd; Syriac: ܣܥܪܬ, romanized: Siirt;[3] Kurdish: Sêrt;[4] Ottoman Turkish: سعرد; Greek: Σύρτη) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of Siirt Province. The population of the city according to the 2009 census was 129,188.[5]

Siirt
Municipality
View of Siirt
Siirt
Coordinates: 37°55′30″N 41°56′45″E
Country	Turkey
Region	Southeastern Anatolia
Province	Siirt
Government
• Elected Mayor	Berivan Helen Işık (deposed) (HDP)
• Acting Mayor (Governor of Siirt Province)	Ali Fuat Atik
Area [1]
• District	283.87 km2 (109.60 sq mi)
Elevation	902 m (2,959 ft)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	135,350
• District	145,784
• District density	510/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Website	www.siirt.bel.tr

History

Previously known as Saird, in pre-Islamic times Siirt was a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church (Sirte, Σίρτη in Byzantine Greek). In the medieval times, Arzen was the main city and it competed with Hasankeyf over the control the region, Siirt was only to become a center of the region in the 14th century. But it was still dependent from Hasankeyf until the 17th century.[6] An illuminated manuscript known as the Syriac Bible of Paris might have originated from the Bishop of Siirt's library, Siirt's Christians would have worshipped in Syriac, a liturgical language descended from Aramaic still in use by the Syriac Rite,Chaldean Rite, other Eastern Christians in India, and the Nestorians along the Silk Road as far as China. The Chronicle of Seert was preserved in the city; it describes the ecclesiastical history of the Persian realm through to the middle of the seventh century. From 1858 to 1915 the city was the seat of a bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Most of the city's Assyrians, including Addai Scher their archbishop were murdered during the Assyrian genocide along with the loss of artefacts such as the Syriac manuscript of Theodore of Mopsuestia's De Incarnatione.[7] Also during World War I, the Armenian population of Siirt became a victim of the Armenian genocide.[8]

Demographics

Mother tongue composition of the city proper of Siirt in 1927 according to Turkish census[9]
Languages	Speakers	%
Arabic	10,498	69.5
Turkish	3,621	24.0
Kurdish	973	6.5
Other	7	0.0
Total	15,099	100

İsmet İnönü referred to the city as an Arab city eager to get Turkified, while Kurds lived in the outskirts.[10] Kurds currently constitute a majority in the city[11] with a significant Arab community.[12][13]

Government

In the municipal elections of March 2019 Berivan Helen Işık of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected mayor.[14] She was dismissed from her post on 15 May 2020 and detained over terror charges. Ali Fuat Atik, the Governor of the Siirt province was appointed trustee by the Ministry of the Interior.[15]

Landmarks

The city's landmark is the Great Mosque (Ulu Cami) built in 1129 by the Great Seljuk Sultan Mahmud II who belonged to the main branch of the dynasty that ruled from Baghdad after this Turkish Empire had split into several branches. The mosque was restored in 1965.

Trivia

Siirt was Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's constituency from 2003 to 2007. His wife, Mrs. Emine Erdoğan, is from Siirt and the PM had been elected to the Turkish Grand National Assembly in a by-election held in Siirt in 2003.

Although Siirt remains one of the poorer cities in Turkey, some neighbourhoods have fine and modern housing including new shops, banks and hotels.[16]

Climate

Siirt has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa, Trewartha: Cs) with very hot, dry summers and chilly, wet winters. During winter months there is frequent frost and occasional snowfall.

Notable people

• Mehmet Güney (1936*), Diplomat and judge
• Coşkun Aral (1956*), correspondent, photo journalist, television journalist and documentary film producer.
• Ethem Sancak (1958*), Businessmen
• Zübeyir Aydar (1961*), politician, lawyer and president of the Kongra-Gel (People's Congress of Kurdistan)
• Yasin Aktay (1966*), Chairman of Justice and Development Party in Turkey
• Hasan Özer (1974*), footballer and manager
• Kerem Gürgen (1983*), boxer
• Evin Demirhan (1995*), freestyle wrestler

Gallery

• 
  A bridge in Siirt
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  Ebul Vefa Mosque
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  Ibrahim hakkı shrine in Siirt Tillo
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  The city hall
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  Siirt Tillo
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  Siirt Street scene
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  Siirt Saat Kulesi
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  Siirt Market area
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  Siirt Ulu Camii
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  Hacı Abdulhakim Sancak Çarşı Camii
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  Hacı Abdulhakim Sancak Çarşı Camii Minber

References

External links

• George_Grigore: Les principales caracteristiques de l'arabe parle a Siirt

На других языках

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[de] Siirt

Siirt (arabisch سعرد Siʿrad, aramäisch .mw-parser-output .Armi{font-size:125%}ܣܥܪܬ .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}siʿreth, armenisch Սղերդ Sġerd, kurdisch Sêrt) ist eine Stadt in der türkischen Region Südostanatolien. Sie ist die Hauptstadt der gleichnamigen Provinz Siirt und zugleich Zentrum eines direkt dem Gouverneur unterstellten Kreises, des zentralen Landkreises (Merkez). Die Stadt Siirt liegt ca. 800 km südöstlich von der Landeshauptstadt Ankara.

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- [en] Siirt

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[ru] Сиирт

Сии́рт[1] (тур. Siirt курд. Sêrt) — город и район в провинции Сиирт на юго-востоке Турции, административный центр провинции. Население города, в своём большинстве арабы и курды, по данным переписи 2009 года составляет 129 188 человек[2]. По избирательному округу Сиирта баллотировался премьер-министр Турции Реджеп Тайип Эрдоган.

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