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Diyarbakir Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Diyarbakir, Turkey
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No Sleep 'Til Diyarbakir
This is a top pick! ... 's Party group in Northern Iraq. The man was singing "we will not stop until we have taken Diyarbakir," the most populous Kurdish city in Turkey. On this day, the Turkish army had entered into Northern Iraq to destroy the PKK, which ...
Walls and Thieves
This is a top pick! ... that if we come back to his town we could stay at his place and he would take us around the walls! So - Diyarbakir was a bugger after all. I can recommend Diyarbakir for the cheapest carpets ever but I wouldn't recommend trying to walk the ...
Heads of Nemrut - Sunrise and Sunset
This is a top pick! Yusuf would be our tour guide and driver. We were just waiting for the other two and guess who they were? Correct! The two that had been on the same bus as us! Fabrizio and Corina were Italian and came from Imola - close to Bologna, home of Ducati ...
Pickpockets
This is a top pick! The night bus to Van was not leaving till late, so we took an early bus to Diyarbakir to check out this town. We would have 8 hours in it. More than enough. Fuck Dactari's theory that you should spend a couple of days in a town !!!!! Funily enough, Irish ...
Kurdish Turkey
... I was forbıdden from touchıng the free breakfast buffet because of my dırt cheap rate. The bus rıde from far Eastern Turkey was about 7 hours so I didnt make ıt to Van untıl around 6 or 7 but I decıded to head out and ...
Is There a Doctor in the House?
... is your name?" Fourth Level: "What is your job?" And that's pretty much it until the university level. In Diyarbakir it has been augmented with, "Money, money." And such it was with this group. All of this I was tired of, and tried ...
I like walls
... wall that encloses it. Expecting directions instead we got their company and an escorted tour. Then came the marijuana, a real surprise as Turkey is very hard on drugs. They rolled a massive joint and we sat in the recesses of the wall, overlooking the ...
Hopa-Kars-Diyarbakir
... Ararat, we climbed a hill to view the Ishakpasa palace of a 15th century kurdish chieftan. And now we have moved on to Diyarbakir ,A city that is considered the center of kurdish nationalism. The old city is serrounded by a wall dating to pre christ and ...
Cutting it short
... and the opportunity to try Pıde, my fondest of Turkish dishes. I can see how you could quickly become fat living in Turkey, lots of bread and other side orders come free as a starter to your meal and crazed with hunger you eat these and then ...
The lake!
... holiday by the lake. It was very strange encountering this as I have not seen anyone but tourists campıng so far in Turkey. Bombarded with food and friendly kids we went for our final swim then headed for dinner. Coincidence had it that our meal stop ...
Diyarbakir in the Rain
I've come today to Diyarbakir from Mardin. Acrosss the street from the hotel in Mardin was a young girl also seeking to go to Diyarbakir, so I just tagged along as she led the way to the proper dolmus stop. Likewise, at the Diyarbakir otogar she ...
Turkish Kurdistan’s Capital!
... going to Ankara From Urfa today, I made the 3 hour journey onto the most populous Kurdish city of Turkey, Diyarbakir. It is much less historical and much more industrial compared to Urfa, but I liked it nevertheless. The moment I ...
Mollestation, the military and melon
... a passing Cen and slipstreaming a truck came at the end of the ride and I arrived safely in Diyarbakir. For the first time in Turkey I felt both uncomfortable and angry as a swarm of obnoxious kids gathered round me demanding money and speaking briskly ...
Diyarbakir
Very dark city. People with their heads down and keeping quiet. Got stoned by a bunch of kids by the Tigris river. Getting out of ...
Cafe time
... and 24 hour shifts are never desirable even if you don't have to work for two days following. It seems like every city in Turkey I have visited has an entirely seperated military communıty. I can see why many people in the military do not opt for ...
Vom Militaer erwischt / Catched by the Army
... - so hofft man...... Nach einer eher kurzen Fahrt wird am 4.10.06 in ein Low- Budget- Hotel in Diyarbakir eingecheckt um einen Halbtages Aufenthalt zu nutzen um wichtigste Sehenswuerdigkeiten zu sehen und Arbeiten zu eredigen. XXXXX Altough not ...
Live Kurdish Music and guess who we met on the way
... ; We have decided to give some of the money we raise for bowel cancer from our forthcoming climb up Mt Ararat, to a named Eastern Turkey family where the husband has cancer and is unable to work, Sabahattin to find out who and he will give the money, the ...
Diyarbakir - kurdernes uofficielle hovedstad
Saa havnede vi i hjertet af de kurdiske omraader i Tyrkiet og i kurdernes uofficielle hovedstad, Diyarbakir. Der er ingen tvivl om, det er et konfliktfyldt omraade, og at Tyrkiets behandling af sine 15-20 mill. indbyggere af kurdisk ...
Great mosque (Diyarbakir, Kurdistan) (Turkey)
The Great Mosque of Diyarbakir is the oldest and one of the most significant mosques in Anatolia. Following the Muslim capture of Diyarbakir in 639, a church in the city was used in part as a mosque. The church was eventually fully converted to a mosque, ...
Road to Dada dada dada Batman!
... from Mardin to Tatvan, Výa Batman (yes Bat-man) but ýt sounded like I may end up having to go on via Diyarbakir. OR Via Diyarbakir (in the wrong direction!). I went for that, but on arrival it became apparent I had to go via either Batman or ...
Diyarbakir
... was on my way, and a student started talking to me in English, asking me what I knew about events in Diyarbakir (which is the center of Turkey's Kurdish separatist movement). I said "what, do you want me to talk about politics?" He did indeed ...
Diyarbakir - the Kurdish capital of Turkey
... – I don't think Turkish men help their women-folk when it comes to drying rice on the local slipway. Diyarbakir is known as the capital of Turkey's Kurdish culture, and has been the stage for many of the Kurd's attempts to carve out their own ...
Batman!
... freedom, so the independent movement has been calmed down and it is safe to travel here. Our first stop was the city of Diyarbakir, the biggest city of the region and according to the native, everyone except the policemen and the soldiers is a Kurd. It ...
GET ME FROM THE TURK!!!
... Rob hates night buses as he doesnt sleep well and just generally hates them. But the alternative was trekking out into Diyarbakir's city, finding a hotel, staying the night, trekking back into the bus station and then making the 14 hour journey during ...
Diyarbakir
... that in Eastern Turkey 'people are eating each other' I also found out that in an opinion poll just carried out in Diyarbakir From the BBC web site: When asked the appropriate punishment for a woman who has committed adultery, 37% replied she should ...
3rd – 4th October
... it happened to be that he was rambling on about. He was a truly comic character, but very friendly and sweet. Diyarbakir’s black fortress walls surrounding the city, run for 6 km and are impressive. We walked around most of the perimeter and ...
Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends
... both a fisherman and curtain maker. He smiled a lot, talked of his eleven children and gave us pomegranates to eat. Diyarbakir is the the Kurdish capital and a rather sombre place with basalt black city walls metres high. It did not have a ...
At the beginning of Tigris
... main road ıs as usual very well prepared and 2-4 lanes, the smaller roads are more difficult and full of pot holes. Diyarbakir is a big city at the beginning of the Tigris and in the middle of the Hıghlands. There is an ...
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