Çemişgezek ( ku, Melkişî; hy, Չմշկածագ, translit=Čmškacag) is a town and district of
Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province ( tr, Tunceli ili, ku, Parêzgeha Dêrsimê, Zazaki: ), formerly Dersim Province, is located in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The least densely-populated province in Turkey, it was originally named ''Dersim Provin ...
,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
. The mayor is Levent Metin Yıldız (
AKP).
The district has a population of 7,418 as of 2021.
Demographics
The town and district is populated by both
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...
and
Turks.
Notable natives
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Aurora Mardiganian
Aurora (Arshaluys) Mardiganian ( hy, Ô±Õ¸Ö‚Ö€Õ¸Ö€Õ¡ ±Ö€Õ·Õ¡Õ¬Õ¸ÕµÕ½Õ„Õ¡Ö€Õ¿Õ«Õ¯Õ¡Õ¶Õ¥Õ¡Õ¶; January 12, 1901 – February 6, 1994) was an Armenian-American author, actress, and a survivor of the Armenian genocide.
Biography
Aurora Mardiganian wa ...
–
Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...
survivor, writer of ''
Ravished Armenia''.
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Aynur DoÄŸan
Aynur DoÄŸan (born 1 March 1975) is a contemporary Kurdish singer and musician from Turkey.
Career
Aynur Doğan was born in Çemişgezek, a small mountain town in Tunceli Province in Turkey and fled to İstanbul in 1992. She studied ''saz'' ...
– Kurdish singer
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Diyap Yıldırım – Kurdish politician
See also
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Emirate of Çemişgezek
References
External links
Populated places in Çemişgezek District
Districts of Tunceli Province
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
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