Siverek

Siverek (from ) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 3,936 km2, and its population is 267,942 (2022). Siverek is in Şanlıurfa province but closer geographically to the large city of Diyarbakır (approx 83 km).
History
Siverek was historically known in medieval Arabic as Hisn ar-Ran, which was corrupted into Greek Chasanara as found in the Escorial Taktikon. The town came under Byzantine control sometime after 956 and by the early 970s had become the seat of a strategos.
In the Ottoman Empire period Siverek was within the Diyarbekir vilayet, and it had several Christian settlements.
Demographics
9,275 Armenians lived in the kaza on the eve of the First World War according to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople. They had eight churches and three schools. 5,450 Armenians and 1,200 Syriacs lived in the town of Siverek. 6,550 Syriacs lived in 32 surrounding villages. Armenian men were massacred in May 1915, followed by the deportation of the women and children, as part of the Armenian genocide. Faiz El-Ghusein reported that the road between Urfa and Severek was littered with corpses.
Politics
In common with other districts of Şanlıurfa, business and politics in Siverek are strongly influenced, even controlled, by a powerful clan. Siverek is the home town of Sedat Bucak, the former DYP member of parliament who survived the car crash in the Susurluk scandal. He is the leader of the Bucak tribe, one of whom has represented the area in the Turkish Parliament since its foundation. Sedat Bucak remains a friend of former DYP leader Mehmet Ağar. In the local elections in March 2019, Şehmus Aydın was elected mayor. He resigned due to health problems in 2020, and was succeeded by Ayşe Çakmak (AKP). The current kaymakam is Musa Aydemir.
Composition
There are 180 neighbourhoods in Siverek District:
Abdalağa
Alagün
Alanyurt
Altaylı
Altınahır
Altınlı
Altınpınar
Anacak
Armağanlı
Aşağı Alınca
Aşağı Karabahçe
Aşağı Karacaören
Aşağıyalankoz
Aşlıca
Atmaca
Avurtepe
Ayrancı
Ayvanat
Azıklı
Bağcı
Bağlar
Bahçe
Bahçelievler
Bakı Takoran
Bakırca
Bakmaç
Bardakçı
Başbük
Başdeğirmen
Batı
Bayırözü
Beğdeş
Benek
Beyali
Beybaba
Beyçeri
Böğürtlen
Bozkuyu
Bozlak
Bürüncek
Büyük Kazanlı
Büyük Oba
Büyük Tepe
Büyük Yakıtlı
Büyükgöl
Çağa
Çağdaş
Camiikebir
Çanakçı
Canpolat
Çatlı
Çavuşlu
Çaylarbaşı
Çeltik
Çepni
Çevirme
Çiftçibaşı
Çinhisar
Çubuklu
Dağbaşı
Damlıca
Dardağan
Darıcalı
Deliktaş
Dicle
Dilekli
Direkli
Divan
Doğukent
Dönemeç
Düğerin
Ediz
Eğriçay
Endarlı
Erbey
Ergen
Erkonağı
Ertem
Eskihan
Esmerçayı
Fırat
Fırın
Gaziköy
Gedik
Gerçek
Gözcek
Gözelek
Gözeli
Gülabibey
Güllice
Gülpınar
Güney
Güney Karabahçe
Gürakar
Güvenli
Güvercin
Güzelpınar
Hacıömer
Haliliye
Hamamören
Hamidiye
Hasançelebi
Hasırlı
Hayriye
İleri
İnanlı
Kale
Kalemli
Kalınağaç
Kamışlı
Kapıkaya
Karabahçe
Karacadağ
Karadibek
Karahisar
Karakeçi
Karakoyun
Kargalı
Karkaşı
Karpuzcu
Kavaklıdere
Kavalık
Kayalı
Kayseri
Keçiburcu
Keçikıran
Keş
Kesmekaya
Kıvançlı
Konurtepe
Küçükgöl
Kulaksız
Küptepe
Kurbağalı
Kuşlugöl
Mezraa
Narlıkaya
Nohut
Ofis
Oluklu
Onar
Önder
Örgülü
Ortanca
Oyman
Oyuktaş
Peynirci
Sabancı
Şairibrahimrafet
Salur
Sarıdam
Sarıkaya
Sarıören
Savucak
Şekerli
Selimpınar
Şirinkuyu
Sislice
Soydan
Söylemez
Sumaklı
Tanrıverdi
Taşağıl
Taşhan
Taşıkara
Taşlı
Turna
Ülkülü
Üstüntaş
Uzunpınar
Uzunziyaret
Yeleken
Yeniceli
Yenişehir
Yoğunca
Yoğurtçu
Yücelen
Yumrutepe
Yuvar
Zincirliçay
Climate
Siverek has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa).
References
External links
District governor's office
Siverek
Siverek Son Haber
Populated places in Şanlıurfa Province
Districts of Şanlıurfa Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
Assyrian communities in Turkey
Former Armenian communities in Şanlıurfa Province