Siverek (Kurdish: Sêwreg‎) is a town and district in the south-east of Turkey, in Şanlıurfa Province. Population 107,634 (town); 247,000 (district) (2000 census).Siverek is in Şanlıurfa province but closer geographically to the large city of Diyarbakır (approx 83 km). In the Ottoman Empire period Siverek was within Diyarbekir Vilayet, and the people of Siverek are said to be reluctant to accept being part of Şanlıurfa even today.In the countryside the people are mostly ethnic Kurd.