Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. It is considered one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, having
Goletli Park, Diyarbakir
Diyarbakir Great Mosque DSCF8201
Diyarbakr Western City Wall
Kurdistan, or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region and stateless nation in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, a
Diyarbakır
…main focal point of the conflict between the Turkish state and various Kurdish separatist groups, and is seen by many Kurds as the informal capital of Kurdistan. The city was intended to become the capital of an independent Kurdistan following the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, but this was disregarded following…
Ancient Kurdistan as Kard-uchi, during Alexander the Great's Empire, 4th century BCE
British Government 1921 proposal from the Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, for an autonomous region of Kurdistan.
A typical Kurdish village in Hawraman, Kurdistan
Canyon in Rawanduz, northern Iraqi Kurdistan