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	Siirt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Siirt is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of Siirt Province.
		Siirt is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's constituency.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siirt (320 words)

	Siirt
		Siirt is the capital of Siirt province with 270,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		Siirt is the centre of a specialized agricultural region, with pistachio nuts as the main produce.
		Siirt is connected by road to Batman 100 km west, Diyarbakir 200 km west, Syria 75 km south, Hakkari 300 km east and Van 200 km northeast.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/siirt.htm (222 words)

	Siirt Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Siirt is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast.
		The province borders Bitlis to the north, Batman to the west, Mardin to the southwest, Şırnak to the south, and Van to the east.
		It has an area of 5,465 km² and a total population of 263,676.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siirt_Province (100 words)

	Siirt - All About Turkey
		Siirt is a pretty province located in Southeastern Anatolia, 224 km northeast of Mardin, and separated from this province by the Tigris (Dicle) river.
		According to the 1997 Census, the population of the province is 262,371.
		The province is rich in terms of its animal population and therefore has a high potential for the development of integrated meat and leather processing industries.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /siirt.htm (515 words)

	Welcome To Siirt Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Siirt lies at an altitude of 930 m and covers an area of 5406 sq.km.All of the region and towns such as Van, Hakkari, Batman, Bitlis,Şırnak and Mardin are richlyre presanted in Siirt.
		At the entrance to the city of Siirt, in front of the Town hall,stands this tall and imposing tower.
		The traditional art of weaving kilims has flourished, as the province of Siirt is one of the sheep- breed ing regions of Turkey.
	www.siirt56.8m.com /siber2.htm (1228 words)

	UNICEF Turkey / Press Centre 2004/07/01
		The education community is abuzz with talk about the province of Siirt: the school attendance rate has jumped from just 4 to 63 percent within a matter of 4 years and contracts for teachers failing to enroll at least 25 new students are being cancelled.
		Siirt gained an incredible momentum in education after the new Governor took office and the province is now leading all other provinces in pre-school education enrolment.
		It was decided that the province is ideally suited to the cultivation of pistachio nuts and the Governorate has so far spent 160 billion for seed procurement and technical support and the Ministry of Agriculture and Village Works (MOA) allocated 300 billion TL to support pistachio farming in the province.
	www.unicef.org /turkey/pc/ge35.html (1151 words)

	Turkey: "Still critical": Assessing the Scale of the Problem
		Kayaş hamlet of Kırkpınar village in Dicle, Diyarbakır province.
		Küpetaşı hamlet of Kırkpınar village in Dicle, Diyarbakır province.
		In the case of Siirt province, the underrecording of the original population seriously distorts the picture for the province as a whole.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2005/turkey0305/5.htm (3201 words)

	Batman - All About Turkey
		One of the southeastern Anatolian cities, Batman is a little province which takes its name from the river flowing on its west.
		In the early years of the Republic, Batman was attached to the province of Siirt and known as "Iluh".
		Once a part of the province of Siirt, the district was especially eminent during the time of Abbasid Caliphate.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /ita/batman.htm (651 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Siirt
		Siirt is a city and province in Southeast Turkey where legend and fact are mingled in the colourful story of its past.
		Siirt is built upon seven hills, at the top of almost every one of which is a mausoleum belonging to dervish leaders known as şeyhs.
		The old quarter of Siirt is the place to see the traditional houses, unique to this province, known as cas, the term for the gypsum limestone of which they are made.
	www.atamanhotel.com /siirt.html (1053 words)

	WHO \| Avian influenza – situation in Turkey - update 4 Sequencing of human virus
		The patients are residents of Sanliurfa Province, near the southern border with Syria, and Siirt Province, which is adjacent to Van in the eastern part of the country.
		Altogether, agricultural officials have confirmed poultry outbreaks in 11 provinces and are investigating possible outbreaks in an additional 14 provinces across the country.
		These studies should deepen understanding of the epidemiology of the disease, including the possibility that any human-to-human transmission may have occurred, the vulnerability to infection of health care workers and other occupationally-exposed groups, and the possibility that milder forms of the disease might be occurring in the general population.
	www.who.int /entity/csr/don/2006_01_12/en/index.html (808 words)

	Toprak Home Page
		One of the southeastern Anatolian cities, Batman, one of the lovely cities of Türkiye is a little province which takes its name from the river flowing on its west.
		Siirt was an especially eminent city at the time of the Abbasid Caliphate.
		Siirt produces fine and large pistachio nuts and is known as well for its excellent goat-hair blankets and kilims.
	web.deu.edu.tr /atiksu/turkiye/batman.html (523 words)

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		Siirt province in the Southeastern region of Turkey, which is quite rich in regional handicrafts, is especially known for its blankets, kilims and saddlebags.
		In Siirt, saddlebags, socks, women's dresses, vests and cardigans are also knitted, and car-seat covers as well as kilims and blankets are woven.
		The customs and traditions, tastes and imagination of the people living in the region are reflected in all their handicrafts...The people of Siirt are excellent artisans.
	www.byegm.gov.tr /yayinlarimiz/NEWSPOT/1997/4/N14.htm (312 words)

	A NEW CHROMOSOMAL FORM OF Nannospalax ehrenbergi
		The analyses of Batman and Siirt population's karyotype, whose results are shown here, represents a contribution to knowledge of the karyotype.
		By this pecularities the specimens of Batman and Siirt are different with the population of Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, and Tarsus population (Table 1).
		Morphological and Karyological Peculiarities of Spalax ehrenbergi Nehring 1898 (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Şırnak Province.
	www.dicle.edu.tr /~yukselc/Batman.htm (1690 words)

	Displaced and Disregarded
		In July 2002, the displaced inhabitants of Bağarası, near Derik in Mardin province, who had repeatedly applied to return home, reported that the Derik local governor had told them that they would be permitted to return if they signed documents stating that the PKK had burned their village.
		Villagers in other provinces reported that governors were providing some communities with bricks and cement, or in other cases, windows and doors.
		After a gendarme was killed by a landmine in the Beytuşşebap district of Şırnak province in July 2001, gendarmes drove out the inhabitants of the villages of Asat and Ortaklı that were near the scene of the explosion.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2002/turkey/Turkey1002-10.htm (7236 words)

	Turkey
		In the provinces under emergency rule, the regional state of emergency governor empowers security authorities to search without a warrant residences or the premises of political parties, businesses, associations, or other organizations.
		Six provinces remain under "adjacent province" status, which authorizes the Jandarma to retain security responsibility for municipalities as well as rural areas and grants the provincial governor several extraordinary powers.
		In April the governor of Siirt province closed the local weekly Guney for printing material offensive to the dignity of the State.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/365.htm (19405 words)

	Ethnologue: Turkey
		East central, mainly in Elazig, Bingol, and Diyarbakir provinces, upper courses of the Euphrates, Kizilirmaq, and Murat rivers.
		The majority are in the provinces of Hakkari, Siirt, Mardin, Agri, Diyarbakir, Bitlis, Bingol, Van, Adiyaman, and Mus.
		Rize in northeast, towns of Kemer, Atin, Artasen, Vitse, Arkab, Hopa, Sarp; and villages in Artvin, Sakarya, Kocaeli, and Bolu provinces.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Turk.html (1899 words)

	North Kurdistan: Newspaper in Siirt begins publishing section in Kurdish (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Summary: Ozgur Siirt [Free Siirt] newspaper, achieving a first for Siirt, is continuing its publication, which began in November, with a five-page section in Kurdish.
		Ozgur Siirt newspaper, which began its twice-monthly publication in Siirt on 27 November 2002, began on 22 April to appear with a five-page section in Kurdish consisting of news, topical affairs, and educational and cultural articles.
		He said that, as Ozgur Siirt newspaper, they had decided on 4 April 2003 to begin publishing in Kurdish under the name Serta Azad, and brought out the first issue on 15 April 2003, and were pleased to begin publication in the native territory in the 105th year of Kurdish journalism.
	www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=1469 (890 words)

	birdfluinfo's Xanga Site
		She resides in the central province of Sivas, the seventh province to report cases.
		The additional two cases, a nine-year-old girl and her three-year-old brother, are from the Dogubeyazit district in Agri Province, and are hospitalized in the city of Van.
		Turkish laboratories identified four of the new cases as children from three northern provinces, confirming that the virus is steadily advancing from remote, rural eastern areas to the more urbanized west, with three H5N1 carriers already hospitalized in the capital Ankara.
	www.xanga.com /birdfluinfo (4303 words)

	Turkey: AKP leader Erdogan wins by-election in Siirt
		Even so, in the Siirt by-election the AKP won nearly 85 percent of the votes cast and was therefore able to win all the available seats in the constituency, which was required to hold a renewed poll after irregularities arose in the constituency in the course of the November general elections.
		The only two parties admitted to the vote were those which in the November election were able to exceed the very discriminatory 10 percent hurdle and win representation in parliament: the AKP and the CHP (Republican People’s Party), which stands in the tradition of Kemalism.
		Despite his electoral victory in Siirt and the pressure which has been exerted on deputies from all sides, Erdogan must anticipate problems should he present to parliament a second resolution calling for support for the Iraq war—especially when the UN fails to pass a second resolution legitimising war.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/turk-m15.shtml (1262 words)

	Guerillas kill 12 Turkish soldiers -DAWN - International; July 17, 2006
		The ambush on Saturday near Eruh, a town in Siirt province, increased the number of Turkish soldiers killed in action by the autonomy-seeking guerillas to 12 since Thursday, increasing pressure on the government to consider new security measures against the guerillas.
		Erdogan said the PKK was ‘mercilessly martyring the sons of the country’, in reference to the latest killings of Turkish soldiers.
		The clash in Siirt left seven soldiers and one pro-government village guard dead on Saturday while five soldiers were killed on Thursday when their vehicle hit a landmine, believed to be planted by Kurdish guerillas, in Bingol province.
	www.dawn.com /2006/07/17/int3.htm (628 words)

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		Party officials, who are preparing to offer native-language courses in the provincial party headquarters building, are also working towards more long-term projects such as opening private schools and a library.
		Siirt residents are hoping for assistance from institutions and organizations in Europe in order for these projects to materialize as soon as possible.
		Constitutional guarantee Stressing that instruction in one's mother tongue is a universal right, the HADEP provincial chairman pointed out that this right has been affirmed in various international agreements and conventions, and called for the exercise of this right must be provided constitional guarantees without delay.
	www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk /~siamakr/Kurdish/KURDICA/2000/APR/turkey1.html (335 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Erdogan set for parliament bid
		The leader of Turkey's governing party is to stand in a by-election in March, in a first step towards becoming prime minister.
		Recep Tayyip Erdogan will contest the seat in the south-eastern Siirt province on 9 March, a senior party official announced.
		The Turkish constitutional court recently ruled that he was not legally party chairman - although he was subsequently re-elected - and it is thought that there could be further legal challenges to him standing in Siirt.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2720475.stm (347 words)

	Asbarez Online - December 24, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		CHP members also wanted a change to the constitutional amendment package, stipulating that by-elections could not be held automatically in a province which is no longer represented in Parliament and that a two-third vote from Parliament is necessary.
		After the Higher Electorate Board (YSK) cancelled November 3 elections in the southeastern province of Siirt, Erdogan was expected to become a deputy from Siirt in by-elections in this province on February 9.
		Some comment that Erdogan cannot run in Siirt by-elections because, even if Sezer approves changes without sending them to a referendum, there will not be enough time left to make legal changes parallel to the constitutional amendments.
	www.asbarez.com /aol/2002/021224.htm (1149 words)

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		According to unofficial results of local elections in the eastern province of Siirt, the leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Erdogan won about 84 percent of the votes cast and became a member of the Parliament.
		Prime Minister Abdullah Gul is now expected to resign and the president, under the constitution, would ask the leader of the majority party -- Erdogan -- to form a new government.
		As the electors in Siirt cast their votes today Erdogan was talking with U.S. Ambassador Robert Pearson regarding plans for any war against Iraq.
	www.hawaiireporter.com /storyPrint.aspx?1180b709-5837-41c4-a250-def8f87f3147 (579 words)

	2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey
		In June the High Court of Appeals overturned a murder conviction reached by a court in Sinop Province on the grounds that police interrogated the defendant without granting him access to an attorney and there was evidence that the suspect had been tortured.
		In September police in Siirt Province allegedly detained and beat 20 demonstrators who had participated in a rally to protest the prison conditions of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
		In March authorities in Nusaybin, Mardin Province, reportedly prevented a delegation from the German Democratic Socialist Party from visiting the relatives of a shepherd allegedly killed by village guards.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm (16490 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The charismatic head of the Justice and Development (AKP) party is a candidate in the south-eastern province of Siirt, where 119,000 people are eligible to vote in election re-runs for three seats in the 550-member parliament, Agence France-Presse reported.
		But thanks to amendments passed by the AKP-dominated parliament, he can now stand in Siirt, where the November results were annulled due to voting irregularities.
		Five years ago in Siirt that Erdogan recited a poem that earned him a four-month jail term for "inciting religious hatred" under Turkey's strictly-secular political system.
	www.islam-online.net /english/News/2003-03/09/article04.shtml (707 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 00-04-23
		Two slight earthquakes measuring 3.0 and 2.8 on the Richter scale, jolted Germencik township of Aydin province in the Aegean Region at 02:05 a.m and 02:27 a.m.
		A minibus which was on its way from Bafra township of Samsun province to Alacam township, collided with a lorry near Sogukcam village.
		Aygun was elected as a DSP deputy from Ankara province in the 1999 general elections.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/2000/00-04-23.anadolu.html (7055 words)

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