Cumhuriyet (), formerly known as Uğrak, is a neighbourhood in the Beşiri District of Batman Province in Turkey.

History Tāḫāriyyah (today called Cumhuriyet) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had three households, who paid 18 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.

In 2000, it was populated by 11 Yazidis. By 2013, there were four Yazidi families.

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