Beşiri
Municipality in Batman, Turkey
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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]
