Diyarbakır
Metropolitan Municipality
City walls of Diyarbakır
Coordinates: 37°55′N 40°14′E  /  37.91°N 40.24°E  / 37.91; 40.24
Country	Turkey
Region	Southeastern Anatolia
Province	Diyarbakır
Government
?  Trustee	Munir Karalo?lu
? Governor	Munir Karalo?lu
Population
?  Urban	843,460
Time zone	UTC+2 ( EET )
? Summer ( DST )	EEST
Area code	(0090)+ 412

Diyarbakır ( Kurdish : Amed ) 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). The city was known as the Diyar Bakr ("landholdings of the Bakr tribe") and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ordered that the city be renamed "Diyarbakır", which means land of copper in Turkish. ^[1] 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 [ change | change source ]

• Abdulkadir Aksu , former interior minister
• Aziz Yıldırım , President of Fenerbahce S.K. sports club
• Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı , poet
• Mehmed Emin Bozarslan , writer
• Songul Oden , actress
• Suleyman Nazif , poet
• Ziya Gokalp , sociologist and writer (the Ziyagokalp district of the city is named after him, as well as many streets and schools)
• Mıgırdic Margosyan , writer
• Co?kun Sabah , musician

References [ change | change source ]

Other websites [ change | change source ]

• The Governorship of Diyarbakır Archived 2008-11-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
• The Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır (in Kurdish, Turkish, and English)

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