Pickpockets
Trip Start
Aug 23, 1996
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185
453
Trip End
Ongoing
Diyarbakir,
Turkey
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Once in, I bought some tickets for a night bus to Van. Now according to the LP, the old Roman Walls are the second longest walls after the Great Wall of China. As I was buying tickets, we missed the service bus into town, so we decided to walk the K and a half. How hard could that be. Fucking hard actually. Eventually we found them, after lunch !!! They were impressive, so we had a little walk around them until we found the main gate. We found the old caravanasray which was very impressive. Across from there was an old mosque, so we dived in to take a look. It was pretty cool. We left and was grabbed by the local carpet shop man. We told him we already had both Turkish and Kurdish carpets, so we chatted and drank tea instead. He was a lovely chap and he did have some beautiful things in his shop. On the way out, Lucy spotted something that she liked. It was a baby carrier. She wanted it. Does this mean she is getting broody !!! I hope not. We walked around some more and found more wall. We saw an opening to go up. Lucy went over to have a look and I grabbed a seat. Immediately I was surrounded by kids asking for money. Then a guy came over and shooed them away. He then started demanding that I take a tour with him on the walls. He was sitting very close, then another one came to sit on my other side. I stood up and the second man's fingers went for my pocket, but I stopped him, grabbed then and started to bend them back. Lucy was talking to a policeman at this stage and they both came running over to see what was going on. The policeman took over and proceeded to break the guys fingers !!!!! He told us to leave straight away. The other guy followed us and was cursing us as we walked down the road. He started to get closer and louder, but then another policeman in a car came up, and he went away. It was quite scary.
Feeling much relieved, I let Lucy make her purchase of a baby carrier, hoping that is all that she wants !!!!! But for now, we have another fucking overnight bus ride to contend with !!!
Comments
huh againg god damn turkish terrorist state
first of all l,m happy that u have been traveled north kurdistan amed city which,s known (eastern turkey) but me as myself from that city and not happy what u have experienced in diyarbakir. but just wanted to let u know that there,re not turkish people in diyarbakir except police soldiers and official workers. but unfortuneltly there,re thieves where the walls located and they,re supported by turkish polices and states. maybe it,s very strange to u but it,s the fact of deep terrorist turkish state. cos the turkish state supporting those thieves to bother tourists to not visit (kurdistan) and kurdish cities. that,s the turkish state,s systematical policy against kurdish people within kurdish cities as directing by deep turkish state,s special forces. l,m from diyarbakir and l know all those events.
realy l feel very sorry what u experienced in my native city diyarbakir. but eventualy one day we ,ll kick out those turkish soldiers and polices from kurdistan to save kurdish childrens to not be used by terrorist turkish state as thieves .