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Diyarbakir

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Di·yar·ba·kir  (d-yärb-kîr, d-yärbk-r)
A city of southeast Turkey on the Tigris River. It was a Roman colony called Amida from a.d. 230 to 363 and was finally captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1515. Population: 545,000.


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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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