'black ruins',[2] Kurdish: Sêwreg)[3] is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey.

[1] Siverek is in the Şanlıurfa province but is geographically closer to the large city of Diyarbakır (approx.

[6] Together with Edessa, Gargar, Samosata and Hisn Mansur formed part of the Byzantine defence system up to the 1060s when 200 Frankish horsemen were stationed there.

[9] In common with other districts of Şanlıurfa, business and politics in Siverek are strongly influenced, even controlled, by a powerful clan.

Siverek is the home town of Sedat Bucak, the former DYP member of parliament who survived the car crash in the Susurluk scandal.