The newly-built town began to form south of a simple train station built in 1912 along the railway by workers from the nearby town of Suruç . The train station was part of the Baghdad Railway project launched by the Ottoman government to connect Baghdad with Berlin . Refugees fleeing the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire settled in the newly built town around 1915 , and were soon joined by more Kurds from nearby areas
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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