Siirt Province: Difference between revisions

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| name type = Siirt Provinceprovince

| native_namename = Siirt ili<!-- if different from the English name -->Province

| settlement_type image_caption = [[Provinces ofBotan Turkey|ProvinceValley ofNational TurkeyPark]]

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| image_captionimage_map = Siirt in = Turkey.svg

| image_flagmap_caption = Location of Siirt Province in =Turkey

| image_seal seat = <!-- maps and coordinates ------>[[Siirt]]

| image_map leader_name = Siirt inKemal Turkey.svgKızılkaya

| mapsize population_footnotes = 300px

| subdivision_name area_total_km2 = [[Turkey]]5717

| subdivision_type1website = [[First-level NUTS of= Turkey{{url|Region]]http://www.siirt.gov.tr/}}

'''Siirt Province''', ({{lang-langx|tr|{{italics correction|Siirt ili}}}}, {{lang-langx|ku-Latn|Parêzgeha Sêrtê}};<ref>{{cite news |title=Serokê Parêzgeha Sêrtê yê HDPê Çetîn hat girtin |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/kk/tirkiye/serok%C3%AA-par%C3%AAzgeha-s%C3%AArt%C3%AA-y%C3%AA-hdp%C3%AA-cet%C3%AEn-hat-girtin/867953 |access-date=27 April 2020 |agency=Anadolu Agency |date=23 July 2017 |language=ku}}</ref> {{langx|hy|Սղերդ զավառ}}) is a [[Provinces of Turkey|province]] of [[Turkey]], located in the southeast.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |title=Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri |url=https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı |language=tr}}</ref> The province borders [[Bitlis Province|Bitlis]] to the north, [[Batman Province|Batman]] to the west, [[Mardin Province|Mardin]] to the southwest, [[Şırnak Province|Şırnak]] to the south, and [[Van Province|Van]] to the east. It has anIts area ofis 5,406717&nbsp;km² and a total population of 300²,695 (as<ref>{{cite of 2010)web|url=https://www.harita.gov.tr/uploads/files-folder/il_ilce_alanlari.xlsx|title=İl Theve provincialİlçe capitalYüz is theölçümleri|publisher=General cityDirectorate of [[Siirt]].Mapping|access-date=19 TheSeptember majority2023}}</ref> ofand the province'sits population is [[Kurdish331,311 people|Kurdish]](2022).<ref name=tuik>{{citeCite book|last=Watts|first=Nicoleweb F.|title=ActivistsAddress-based inpopulation Office:registration Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkeysystem (StudiesADNKS) inresults Modernitydated and31 NationalDecember Identity)|date=2010|publisher=University2022, ofFavorite Washington PressReports|locationurl=Seattle|isbn=978-0-295-99050-7|page=[https://booksbiruni.googletuik.comgov.tr/medas/books?idkn=yXWl40KJfKEC95&pglocale=PA167en 167|access-date=19 September 2023|publisher=[[TÜİK]]|language=en|format=XLS}}</ref> TheIts currentcapital is [[GovernorSiirt]].<ref ofname=":12" Siirt|Governor/> ofIt theencompasses Siirt12 province[[Belde|municipalities]], is280 Alivillages Fuatand Atik214 [[Hamlet (place)|hamlets]].<ref>{{Cite web|urlname=http"://www.siirt.gov.tr/|title=T.C12" Siirt Valiliği|website=www.siirt.gov.tr|access-date=2020-03-25}}</ref>

In order to [[Turkification|Turkify]] the [[Kurds]] of Siirt,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/867135/65687_13.pdf|title=Young Turk social engineering : mass violence and the nation state in eastern Turkey, 1913- 1950|last=Üngör|first=Umut|website=University of Amsterdam|pages=244–247|access-date=8 April 2020}}</ref> Law 1164 was passed in June 1927,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/20607|title=Üçüncü Umumi Müfettişliği'nin Kurulması ve III. Umumî Müfettiş Tahsin Uzer'in Bazı Önemli Faaliyetleri|last=Aydogan|first=Erdal|access-date=8 April 2020}}</ref> which allowed the creation of [[Inspectorates-General (Turkey)|Inspectorates-General]] (''Umumi Müffetişlik,'' UM)<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Bayir|first=Derya|title=Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law|date=2016-04-22|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-09579-8|pages=139|language=en}}</ref> that governed with [[martial law]] under a [[state of emergency]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Jongerden|first=Joost|title=The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds: An Analysis of Spatical Policies, Modernity and War|url=https://archive.org/details/settlementissuet00jong_169|url-access=limited|date=2007-01-01|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-15557-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/settlementissuet00jong_169/page/n82 53]|language=en}}</ref> The Siirt province was included in the so called First Inspectorate General (''Umumi Müfettişlik,'' UM) in which an Inspector General governed with wide-ranging authority of civilian, juridical and military matters.<ref name=":1" /> The UM covered the provinces of [[Hakkâri Province|Hakkâri]], Siirt, [[Van Province|Van]], [[Mardin Province|Mardin]], [[Bitlis Province|Bitlis]], [[Şanlıurfa Province|Sanlıurfa]], [[Elazığ Province|Elaziğ]] and [[Diyarbakır Province|Diyarbakır]].<ref name=":1" /> The Inspectorate Generals were dissolved in 1952 during the government of the [[Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–61)|Democrat Party]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bozarslan|first=Hamit|title=The Cambridge History of Turkey|date=2008-04-17|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-62096-3|editor-last=Fleet|editor-first=Kate|pages=343|language=en|editor-last2=Faroqhi|editor-first2=Suraiya|editor-last3=Kasaba|editor-first3=Reşat|editor-last4=Kunt|editor-first4=I. Metin}}</ref> Entrance to Siirt province was forbidden to foreigners until 1965.<ref name=":0" />

*[[Baykan District|Baykan]]

*[[Eruh District|Eruh]]

*[[Kurtalan District|Kurtalan]]

*[[Pervari District|Pervari]]

*'''[[Siirt District|Siirt]]'''

*[[Şirvan, TurkeyDistrict|Şirvan]]

*[[Tillo District|Tillo]]

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