Beşiri

Beşiri
Municipality
Beşiri Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.921°N 41.292°E / 37.921; 41.292
Country	Turkey
Province	Batman
District	Beşiri
Government
• Mayor	Sait Karabulut (AKP)
Population  (2021)	11,120
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Website	www.besiri.bel.tr

Beşiri (Kurdish: Qubînê,[1] Armenian: Բշերիկ, romanized: Bsherik, Chernik[2]) is a town and seat of the Beşiri District in the Batman Province of Turkey.[3] Its population is 11,120 (2021).[4] It was originally a village of Diyarbakır Province, it later became a district of Siirt Province and finally in 1990 a district of Batman. The mayor is Sait Karabulut (AKP), elected in 2019.[5]

The town is divided into the neighborhoods of Bağdu, Behrem, Cumhuriyet (Texeriyê), Kobin, Mehmet Yatkın and Milli Egemenlik.[3]

Demographics

The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople recorded 5,038 Armenians in the kaza before the First World War. They spoke Kurdish and had 15 churches and 14 schools.[2] 200 Assyrians lived in the town and 4,690 more in 27 surrounding villages.[2] The vast majority of the Armenians and Assyrians were massacred during the Assyrian and Armenian genocides.[2]

Notable residents

• İsmail Özden

References

1. Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56.
2. "Kaza Beşiri / Բշերիկ - Bsherik / Չերնիկ - Chernik / Beth Shyreh (Bšērīye) - ܝܬܫܝܪ̈ܐ (ܒܫܝܪܝܗ)". Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
3. İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
4. "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
5. "Batman Beşiri Belediye Başkanı Sait Karabulut AKP'ye katıldı". T24. 15 August 2022.