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Diyarbakır: How to get there?
2 hours by plane from Istanbul
Diyarbakır: See when to go?
All year round
Diyarbakır: For how long?
One day
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Diyarbakır Holidays
The capital of the Turkish Kurds, Diyarbakir has a very special atmosphere, a feeling of elsewhere inside its old town walls.
Diyarbakır: What to see nearby?
What our travellers think of their stay
Considered as the capital of Turkish Kurdistan, Diyarbakir is a very beautiful city overlooking the Tigris Valley and encircled by walls dating from the Roman Empire.
My suggestion
I recommend that you have dinner at a cabaret. There you can listen to Kurdish music while drinking the traditional raki. Be careful: the proverb says that after the first glass everything is fine; after the second, you laugh; and after the third, you cry.
The capital of the Turkish Kurds, Diyarbakir has a very special atmosphere, a feeling of elsewhere inside its old town walls.
My suggestion
If you go to Diyarbakir and you would like to find out more about the Kurdish minority, then you should visit Dengbêj Evi, a sort of museum where the oral traditions of the Kurds are preserved. Fascinating.
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