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Siirt () is a city in southeastern
Turkey and the seat of
Siirt Province. Siirt urban center has a mixed population of
Kurds,
Turks, and
Arabs. The population of the city according to the
2000 census was 98,281
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Although still one of the poorer cities in Turkey, whole neighborhoods that have fine and modern housing, stores, banks and hotels have been recently built, making Siirt more worthwhile to visit
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The city's landmark is the Great Mosque (
Ulu Cami) built in
1129 by the
Great Seljuk Sultan Mahmut II who belonged to the main branch of the dynasty that ruled from
Baghdad after this
Turkish Empire had split into several branches. The mosque has been restored in
1965.
Siirt is famous around
Turkey for its hand-made blankets (
Siirt battaniyesi). Many visitors find themselves departing with one offered as a present. The traditional
kilims produced by the
Jirikan clan (
aşiret) and revived since 1996 through joint efforts involving official instances and citizens are also much prized. Another product of interest is the
Bıttım soaps proper to the region. Siirt also has an extremely rich culinary and spa culture. Depending district centers of
Aydınlar (former
Assyrian-rooted name was
Tillo) with its historical
medrese is renowned as a religious center and
Pervari for its honey based on the particularly rich flora.
Siirt is
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's constituency. His wife, Mrs.
Emine Erdoğan, is from Siirt and the PM has been elected to the
Turkish Grand National Assembly in a by-election held in Siirt in
2003.
Christian history
In pre-Islamic times, Siirt was an episcopacy of the
Byzantine Church. An illuminated manuscript known as the
Syriac Bible of Paris may have originated from the Bishop of Siirt's library, Siirt's Christians would have worshipped in
Syriac, a liturgical language related to
Arabic still in use by the
Chaldean Rite, other Eastern Christians in India, and the
Nestorians along the Silk Road as far as China.
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