Miroglu Diyarbakir

The leaving of &#350;anliurfa included that we had to search first a garage on a still public holiday. We were lucky and we found somebody who was able and willing to weld Werners exhaust pipe that was having a crack around.<br><br>We left then through the plains between Mard&#305;n and &#350;anliurfa that are irrigated with the water from the Atatürk dam network. There is an impressive water supply network that allows ...

In the Kurdish part of Turkey, there is a city called Batman, and the city has sued United Studio for the copy right of its name, but lost.<br><br>But no, it's not why I took a 12 hours bus ride from Trabzon to come to this land of the Kurds, at the Southeastern corner of Turkey. My reason to come here was because of its unique culture and history. As a tribe, the Kurd is the world&#8217;s biggest group of people that don&#8217;t have a nation. At the end ...

(Jim)<br><br>Our trip from Kahta on to Diyarbakir took us through more of the same stunning scenery we had passed through on our way to Nemrut Dagi so the miles rolled by easily as we headed east. The shortest route onwards took us straight towards the lake formed behind Ataturk Dam, where the minibus was loaded onto a creaking old ferry and steamed across. After so much time spent on the road in buses, minibuses and service taxis it was a welcome change to be ...

The evening is boiling, so it's off to a live kurdish music club call the Visa Club - great fun with fireworks to celebrate 2 birthdays. 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 rest to go to bowel cancer awareness here in the UK. We had some CD's burnt in a local shop and ...

... 305;rt cheap rate. The bus r&#305;de from far Eastern Turkey was about 7 hours so I didnt make &#305;t to Van unt&#305;l around 6 or 7 but I dec&#305;ded to head out and explore the old city just a b&#305;t. Diyabaki&#305;r has been ground zero for the Kurd&#305;sh res&#305;stance movement wh&#305;ch began around the 1980s... While strolling through Uli Cami - the most impressive Mosque &#305;n the city - a very n&#305;ce local guy named Omar ...

... outside the wall, into the lush vegitable growing fields below the wall to get a perspective view of the wall. I noted, by smell and brown/gray color, the water draining from the city that was used in irrigating the fields. Nice, lush-looking lettuce, but I don't know. . . .<br><br> There was an entrance into a "basement" area of the wall near the gate. I saw some women sitting near by so figured it was safe enough to enter. Preparations were underway for what appeared to be a ...

... from the sky. I managed to dodge their invitation to see the school, though being a former technical illustrator I did have an interest. I just didn't want to schlep my packs over there for the experience. Maybe tomorrow, I tried to tell them. <br><br> With all their fooling around, still I got an unfirm sense of which direction to try once they went their way; although leaving me in the company ...

... from making their language or television stations illegal to chemical warfare. To top it all off, the Turkish government regularly refuses European aid to build basic services in Kurdish areas. Remember, one reason given to invade Iraq was the chemical weapons that had been used against the Kurds, now US allies in Iraq. But still, the PKK is far from being a model group for its own people, with many brutalities committed. I left Diyarbakir, a Kurdish ...

... laerermangel tvunget til at undervise 2-3 aar i den sydoestlige del af landet. Hun var et aegte barn af republikken og af tyrkernes fader, landets foerste praesident og ledende kraft i uafhaengighedskrigen i koelvandet paa 1. verdenskrig, Kemal Ataturk (Ata er tyrkisk for far - tyrkernes fader), og belyste ubevidst en vaesentlig mekanisme i, hvad der kan kaldes, en tyrkisk undertrykkelse af kurderne ...

... n the hills betweenthe military and a group called the PKK. Thýs tensýon has now calmed, but both sides are still very much on edge. The second major ýssue within this city is the issue of headscarves. 90 percent of the population ýis muslim, yet at present the government say that if a female wears a head scarf, she is not allowed to attnd unýversýty of any kýnd. Thýs issue does not appear to be changýng anytime soon. A project called GAP ýs assýstýng many communýtýes ýn ...