Siirt

Also known as Siirt City

thumb|City centreSiirt (; ; ; ;) is a city in the Siirt District of Siirt Province in Turkey. It had a population of 160,340 in 2021. The city is predominantly inhabited by Kurds.

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Siirt is a city located in southeastern Turkey with a population of about 160,000 people, and it serves as the center of Siirt Province. The city is notable as a predominantly Kurdish population center in the region.

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Place details

Locality: Eruh
Region: Siirt
Country: Türkiye
Population: 114,034
Timezone: Europe/Istanbul

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Key facts

Turkey place.type: municipality
Turkey place.name: Siirt
Turkey place.province: Siirt
Turkey place.image_skyline: Sêrt.jpg
Turkey place.image_caption: View of Siirt
Turkey place.leader_title: Elected Mayor
Turkey place.leader_name: Sofya Alağaş (DEM Party) (elect-mayor) (deposed)Dr. Kemal Kızılkaya (trustee)
Turkey place.district: Siirt
Turkey place.population_total: 160340
Turkey place.population_as_of: 2021

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Wikidata facts

Population: 166332
Elevation: 895
Official website: www.siirt.bel.tr
Image: City center.jpg

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Commons category: Siirt
postal code: 56000
social media followers: 11928
P8168: Karin Wolff
urban population: 160340
rural population: 21796
P12749: Alexander Lukashenko

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Travel guide

Understand

Siirt has a mixed population of Kurds, Turks, and local Arabs, the latter of whom speak a dialect that is incomprehensible to Arabs from elsewhere.

Get in

Siirt is not far from Diyarbakır, the largest city of Southeastern Anatolia, 187 km west.

While there is no railway connection to Siirt, TCDD operates an overnight train from Ankara, the Guney Kurtalan Express, to nearby Kurtalan. From there it's 30 km by road and there are connecting buses and taxis.

Buy

Bıttım soap (Bıttım sabunu) made of oil of local variety of pistachios, with its mossy scent and bright green colour, is unique to the city. It's best to buy it from reputable places as some home-made soaps can turn out to be not properly produced (with an excess of lye), so can heavily dry and irritate your skin.

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Article

14 sections

Contents

History
Pre-Islamic
Modern times
Kurdish-Turkish conflict
Demographics
Historical
Modern times
Government
Trivia
Climate
Notable people
Gallery
References
External links

thumb|City centreSiirt (; ; ; ;) is a city in the Siirt District of Siirt Province in Turkey. It had a population of 160,340 in 2021. The city is predominantly inhabited by Kurds.

The city is divided into the neighborhoods of Afetevlerı, Alan, Algul, Bahçelievler, Barış, Batı, Conkbayır, Çal, Doğan, Dumlupınar, Halenze, İnönü, Karakol, Kooperatif, Sakarya, Tınaztepe, Ulus, Ülkü, Veysel Karani and Yeni.