Kulp (, , central district: , ) is a municipality and
district
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of
Diyarbakır Province
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,
Turkey
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. Its area is 1,493 km2, and its population is 34,357 (2022). It is populated by
Kurds
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.
History
The Kulp region gained importance as a center for the
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
** Laki Kurdish
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern ...
chiefdoms in Kulp itself and nearby Zeyrek (to the west).
In 1993, Kulp was under siege by the
Kurdistan Workers' Party
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(PKK). Inhabitants whom the Turkish Government suspected of siding with the PKK were resettled to Diyarbakir.
Politics
In the local elections on the 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
Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...
only. Then nomadic
Kurdish tribes
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The tribes are socio-political and generally also a territorial unit based on descent and kinship, real or ...
started to settle in the area. On the eve of the
First World War
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, more than 5,000 Armenians lived in the
kaza
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, especially in:
* Endzakar (Ընձաքարի, now Ağaçkorur): 140 inhabitants,
* Gazken (now Ağaçlı): 2,000 houses, 100 Armenians,
* Aharonk (now Karabulak),
* Ehub (Eyub, now
Yaylak
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),
* 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 dance
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s and
Armenian cuisine
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.
Composition
There are 58
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Kayahan
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Yaylak
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