Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır () is a city in southeastern Turkey. It is one of the largest cities in southeast Turkey and is on the banks of the Tigris river. It has 843,460 people (2010) who are mostly Kurds. The city was known as the Diyar Bakr ("landholdings of the Bakr tribe") and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered that the city be renamed "Diyarbakır", which means land of copper in Turkish.See Üngör, Uğur (2011), The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 244. . The city was badly damaged and many people died in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake. The City walls of Diyarbakır were damaged as well.

 Notable people born in the city 
Abdülkadir Aksu, former interior minister
Aziz Yıldırım, President of Fenerbahçe S.K. sports club
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, poet
Mehmed Emin Bozarslan, writer
Songül Öden, actress
Süleyman Nazif, poet
Ziya Gökalp, sociologist and writer (the Ziyagökalp district of the city is named after him, as well as many streets and schools)
Mıgırdiç Margosyan, writer
Coşkun Sabah, musician

References

Other websites
The Governorship of Diyarbakır  
The Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır 

Category:Cities in Turkey
Category:Diyarbakır Province