Çermik (; ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its area is 948 km2, and its population is 49,644 (2022). The mayor is Şehmus Karamehmetoğlu from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the current kaymakam is Vahit Yılmaz.
Çermik got its name from its natural spa. It was declared the Diyarbakir Thermal Tourism Center in October 1993.
History Within the Ottoman Empire, Çermik was within the Kurdish sanjaks of the Diyarbekir Eyelet. In 1925 the town came shortly under control of the rebels loyal to Sheikh Said.
Demographics On the eve of the First World War, 12,418 Armenians lived in the kaza of Çermik: 2,000 in the center of Çermik and 10,000 in Çüngüş. They had five churches, one monastery and five schools. They were massacred during the Armenian genocide.
The Jewish population left the town in 1948 when Israel was founded.
Composition There are 81 neighbourhoods in Çermik District:Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
Ağaçhan Akçörten Akkoyunlu Akpınar Alabuğday Alakoç Arabük Armağantaşı Armutlu Artuk Aşağışeyhler Aşağıtaşmalı Asmalık Aynalı Bademlik Bahçe Balıksırtı Başarı Bayat Bayırbağı Baykal Bayrak Bintaş Bircemal Bulundu Çalıtepe Ceylan Çukur Çukurelma Değirmenli Dikyol Dilekpınar Elifuşağı Eskibağ Genceli Göktepe Gözerek Güçlütaş Günaşan Gürüz Güzel Haburman İkiçeltik İncili Kalaç Kale Kalecik Karacaviran Karakaya Karamusa Karataş Kartaltaşı Kayagediği Keklik Kırmatepe Köksal Kömürcüler Konaklı Konuksever Korudağ Kuşlukçayırı Kuyuköy Örenkuyu Pamuklu Petekkaya Pınarlı Recep Saltepe Saray Sarıbalta Sarıca Şeyhandede Sinek Tepe Toplu Yabanardı Yayıklı Yaylacık Yeşilova Yiğitler Yoğun
Climate Çermik has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa) with very hot, dry summers and cool, wet, occasionally snowy winters.
Attractions The baths in the area draw many visitors and tourists from Turkey, mostly of neighboring provinces.
Main attractions are the Haburman Bridge, Çeteci Abdullah Pasha Madrasa, Ulu Cami (the Grand Mosque) the Bandeler Fountain (Bandeler Çesmesi) and the Gelincik Dağı ( Mountain of Gelincik) The town also counts with a Synagogue which dates back to the 1416, but it is not in use.
Notable people
Çeteci Abdullah Pasha, Ottoman statesman. Ziya Gökalp, poer and sociologist
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