Siverek

'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.

Districts of Şanlıurfa
Districts of Şanlıurfa