| Type: | municipality |
| Eruh | |
| Province: | Siirt |
| Coordinates: | 37.7497°N 42.1797°W |
| Leader Party: | AKP |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Cevher Çiftçi |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| District: | Eruh |
| Population Total: | 8895 |
Eruh (ku-Latn|Dih,[1] hy|Դեհ|translit=Dih) is a town and seat of Eruh District of Siirt Province of Turkey.[2]
The town is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 8,895 in 2021.[3] [4] [5]
Eruh town is divided into the three neighborhoods of Farih, Sarıgül and Dih.
In the local elections of March 2019 Cevher Çiftçi was elected mayor.[6] The current District Governor is Ali Erdoĝan.[7]
Eruh was the location of one of two attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the 15 August 1984.[8]
In 2013, the Armenian St. John's Church (Surb Hovhannes) in the Dih district of Eruh, Turkey, was turned into an Islamic religious school for girls.[9]
According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, in 1914 there were 3,393 Armenians in the kaza of Eruh, including 2,412 in Eruh proper.[10] They were slaughtered by the forces commanded by Halil Kut and Djevdet Bey during the Armenian genocide.[10]
The 1927 Turkish census gives a population of 14,910 for the district. 14,451 of them declared being native Kurdish speakers. 14,482 declared being Muslims.[11]