[3] Nami Çiftçi, the town's mayor, told Daily Sabah that they "don't have a precise date determined by expert engineers or by people who are well-versed in this field, so I invite our historians to Gürün.

In 1915, the Ottoman government appropriated these lands, and the Armenian population was deported southward and westward into the Syrian desert, eventually reaching the cities of Homs and Hama.

The union's initial purpose was to assist survivors of the genocide and their families, and it established chapters across the world.

The union cooperated with Armenians from Gürün in Yerevan to found the village of Nor Kyurin in Soviet Armenia.

[7][8] In his Seyahatname, Evliya Çelebi claimed that the town's population then was wholly made up of Turkomans.