Kulp (, , central district: ,Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 328. ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its area is 1,493 km2, and its population is 34,357 (2022). It is populated by Kurds.
History The Kulp region gained importance as a center for the Kurdish chiefdoms in Kulp itself and nearby Zeyrek (to the west).
In 1993, Kulp was under siege by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Inhabitants whom the Turkish Government suspected of siding with the PKK were resettled to Diyarbakır.
Politics In the local elections on 31 March 2019 Mehmet Fatih Taş of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected Mayor. But he was dismissed by the Ministry of the Interior due to an investigation relating to a terrorist attack. Kaymakam Mustafa Gözlet acts as a trustee instead.
Demographics Until the 15th century, the area was inhabited by Armenians only. Then nomadic Kurdish tribes started to settle in the area. On the eve of the First World War, more than 5,000 Armenians lived in the kaza, especially in: Endzakar (Ընձաքարի, now Ağaçkorur): 140 inhabitants, Gazken (now Ağaçlı): 2,000 houses, 100 Armenians, Aharonk (now Karabulak), Ehub (Eyub, now Yaylak), Geghervank (Geghervan, Yüklüce in Turkish, merged with Ağaçkorur), Shughek (now Argunköy), Pasur (now Kulp proper): rural town with 40 Armenian and 40 Kurdish houses.
Many Armenians converted to Islam and were linguistically Kurdified. Many of them joined the Kurdish movement.
Culture Some Armenian cultural features have been preserved such as Armenian dances and Armenian cuisine.
Composition There are 58 neighbourhoods in Kulp District:Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
Ağaçkorur Ağaçlı Ağıllı Akbulak Akçasır Akdoruk Alaca Argunköy Aşağıelmalı Aygün Ayhanköy Bağcılar Baloğlu Barın Başbuğ Bayırköy Çağlayan Çukurca Demirli Dolun Düzce Güleç Güllük Hamzalı İnkaya İslamköy Kamışlı Karaağaç Karabulak Karaorman Karpuzlu Kayacık Kayahan Kaynak Koçkar Konuklu Kurudere Merkez Eski Merkez Yeni Narlıca Özbek Salkımlı Saltukköy Taşköprü Temren Tepecik Turgut Özal Tuzlaköy Üçkuyu Ünal Uygur Uzunova Yakıtköy Yayıkköy Yaylak Yeşilköy Yuvacık Zeyrek
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