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5 unusual facts about Diyarbakır


Barış Pehlivan

In an episode published on February 24, 2007, the documentary focused on the events of the 12th of September 1980 in a Diyarbakır prison.

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Mıgırdiç Margosyan: writer, some of his books: Gavur Mahallesi, Söyle Margos Nerelisen?

Pratap Chatterjee

"Diyarbakır Dispatch: Border Guard." The New Republic, February 13, 2003.

Shamsuddin Effendi

He was born in Istanbul at the turn of the century and died in 1986 in Diyarbakır.

Street children

Diyarbakır is one of the eastern cities where most of Turkey's remaining street children live.


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Artuklu Palace

There are further Artukid palatial residences in Mardin, Hasankeyf and Palu whose remains stand, but this one in Diyarbakır is usually referred to as the "Palace" of the sons of Artuk.

Chaldean Christians

There are five archbishops (resident respectively at Basra, Diyarbakır, Kirkuk, Salmas and Urmia) and seven bishops.

Ghazar Parpetsi

Accusing him of heresy, he was forced out of the monastery in 490, taking up residence in the city of Amida in Byzantium.

People's Labor Party

Vedat Aydın, the Diyarbakır branch chairman of HEP, was found dead on a road near Malatya on 7 July 1991, two days after armed men had taken him from his home in Diyarbakır.


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