Hertevin, officially Ekindüzü, (Armenian: Արդվան, Kurdish: Hertevîn[2]) is a village in the Pervari District of Siirt Province in Turkey.

Spellings used by sources include Artuvin,[6] Hartiv,[7] Artevna,[8] Hertevina,[6] Hertvin, Hertivin, Hertivinler[6] and Ertevın.

During the Ottoman era, the villagers of Hartevin were Rayats of the principality of Bhotan under the authority of the local Kurdish agha,[15] which was somewhat independent of the central government in Constantinople because of the isolation and mountainous nature of the region.

[16] Administratively, the village was in the Sanjak of Siirt in the ancient province of Bitlis Vilayet.

Many of these villages had been of Assyrian or Armenian origins and were replaced by Kurdish populations after massacres, and in many cases, the names were changed.

[17] The Chaldean Catholic bishop of the village was assassinated,[18] and the Venezuelan soldier Rafael de Nogales Méndez witnessed the extermination of tens of thousands of Armenians around Siirt.

[27][28] which was also spoken until the departure of the Assyrians in nearby villages, known in Turkish as Hertevince (ISO 639-3 : hrt).