DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—The Sur Municipality of Diyarbakir held the official inauguration of the Monument of Common Conscience on Sept. 12, with mayor Abdullah Demirbaş apologizing in the name of Kurds for the Armenian and Assyrian […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—Hundreds attended a church service held on Tues., Sept. 10, at the Sourp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakir. Two days earlier, on Sun., Sept. 8, a church service was held at the Sourp […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—The “Armenian Culture, Art, and History” section of the Diyarbakir City Museum will soon open at Sourp Giragos Church. The Diyarbakir City Museum itself will be housed at the Cemil Pasha mansion in […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—Armenian musician Yervant Bostancı, who had left Diyarbakir for Istanbul in 1976 and had been living in the U.S. since 1993, moved back to his hometown last week. The musician/performer, known in Turkey […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—An evening of music and poetry was held at Sourp Giragos Church in Diyarbakir/Dikranagerd on June 11, 2013. The event, attended by more than a thousand people, featured Kurdish musicians Tara Jaff and Pervin […]
Kurdish Musician stresses importance of ‘meaningful steps’ beyond apology and renovation of churches DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—An evening of music and poetry was held at Sourp Giragos Church in Diyarbakir/Dikranagerd on June 11, 2013. The event, […]
This report was filed by the Armenian Weekly’s Diyarbakir correspondent, Gulisor Akkum. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—A large crowd gathered at the Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality Theater on April 23 to commemorate the Armenian Genocide. The event, commemorating the 98th […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—Dozens of Armenians and their Muslim neighbors gathered at the recently renovated Sourp Giragos Church in Diyarbakir to celebrate Easter on March 31. As it proved difficult for the Istanbul Patriarchate to […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—In a five-page statement read in Kurdish and Turkish to hundreds of thousands of Kurds gathered in Diyarbakir to celebrate Newroz on March 21, imprisoned Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan asked PKK fighters […]
The Armenian Weekly correspondent Gulisor Akkum’s camera was confiscated during the protests in Diyarbakir on Nov 17. When the police returned the camera, all photographs were erased. The photo in this report is from an […]
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