Place:Diyarbakır, Diyarbakır, Turkey

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Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey.

Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is the administrative capital of the Diyarbakır Province of southeastern Turkey. It is the second-largest city in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region, after Gaziantep and before Şanlıurfa and the 11th built-up area in Turkey. As of the last 31/12/2021 estimation, the Metropolitan Province population was 1,791,373 inhabitants whom 1,129,218 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 4 urban districts (Bağlar, Kayapınar, Sur and Yenişehir).

Diyarbakır has been a main focal point of the conflict between the Turkish state and various Kurdish separatist groups, and is seen by many Kurds as the de facto capital of Kurdistan. The city was intended to become the capital of an independent Kurdistan following the Treaty of Sèvres, but this was disregarded following subsequent political developments.

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Websites focusing on families from Diyarbakır

• The Amerian, Memleketian Family Tree: Tracing the Lineage of Three Armenian Families: "This page is dedicated to the family genealogy of three Armenian families tracing their roots to Dikranagert (now Diyarbekir), Turkey. This page and its contents contain over 35 years of research of the Amerian, Memleketian and Kasarjian family lineage, using both oral and documentary history to attempt to verify the data." Created by Brian Krikorian.