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Diyarbakir (dēyär`bäkŭr'), anc. Amida, city (1990 pop. 375,767), capital of Diyarbakir prov., SE Turkey, on the Tigris (Dicle) River. It is the trade center for a region producing grains, melons, cotton, copper ore, and petroleum. Manufactures of the city include flour, wine, textiles, and machinery. A Roman colony from A.D. 230, the city was taken (mid-4th cent.) by Shapur II of Persia. It was conquered by the Arabs in 638 and later was held by the Seljuk Turks and Persians. The Ottoman Turks captured Diyarbakir in 1515. It is a Kurdish population center. The city retains the magnificent black basalt fortification walls mainly constructed by Constantine I in the 4th cent. Diyarbakir Univ. is there. |
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Given these circumstances, it was no surprise when Erdogan turned up in the southeastern capital of Diyarbakir on May 7, for the first time since August 2005, and made no concessionary sounding noises at all toward Turkey's Kurdish minority, who constitute the vast majority in the southeastern provinces. I go east from Diyarbakir along the Syrian border to Habur, the last outpost in Turkey before the Tigris river and the northernmost mountains of Iraq. The origin of majority is from less developed cities like Diyarbakir, Kayseri, Malatya and Sivas Which are on the east of the country. |
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