Diyarbakır

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	Münir Karaloğlu
• Governor	Münir Karaloğlu
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 Atatürk 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

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

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