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Destruction of Sur[edit]

Although this topic is mentioned, more questions are raised than answered. What is clear is that a lot of buildings in Sur were damaged in the battles up until 2016. What is not clear is the process by which much of Sur was subsequently demolished, i.e. who was responsible, and why buildings, especially many old buildings of historical interest, were not restored. Dadge (talk) 23:58, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Could you add a list of mayors of 185.187.77.232 (talk) 21:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong info: Tigranocerta is not Diyarbakır[edit]

According to wiki pages below and references in this pages, the city of Tigranocerta is not Diyarbakır but it is an ancient city in the valley of the Garzan river. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tigranocerta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigranocerta

It is not logic that wikipedia offers two very different info.

According wikipedia in Armenian language, name of the city is "Դիարբեքիրը" (lit. Diyarbekir) in Armenian language. amedcj 16:14, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

that's right, Diyarbakir name is Arabic (ديار بكر) "the land of Bakir" and it has no thing to do with Armenian language, it's oldest name is Amid

Language[edit]

Why did what I added was reverted twice on Turkish dialect spoken in Diyarbakir and resmeblance to Azerbaijani? Chelik99 (talk) 21:36, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As I stated in the edit summary, you need a reliable source for your addition. --Semsûrî (talk) 21:43, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Chelik99The sources you brought are no good. I looked up two of them, but none of the two had any relevant mention in English. The phrasing was also a bit unfortunate, it seemed it would defend the Turkish Governmental Point of View.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 23:41, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bianet and Evrensel are more trustworthy on demographics than the Turkish Government.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 06:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The source I mentioned was the original source, of course, it does not have to be in English. The quote "There have been attempts by Turkish lawmakers to deny Diyarbakır's Kurdish majority identity, with Turkey's Education Ministry releasing a school book named "Our City, Diyarbakir" ("Şehrimiz Diyarbakır" in Turkish) on Diyarbakir Province in which it claims that a Turkish similar to that spoken in Baku is spoken in the city along with regional languages without any mention of Kurdish." is not true because Kurdish is mentioned on page 169 [167] at this archived link (https://web.archive.org/web/20210217134102/http:/diyarbakir.meb.gov.tr/kitap/Sehrimiz_Diyarbakir.pdf) Chelik99 (talk) 11:10, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Caption and destruction of Sur[edit]

NeoRetro, the claims you've restored in that caption ([1]) are unsourced and at least partly inaccurate, since I've seen no reports of the western half being demolished and the eastern half is not entirely gone either. The destruction of the old city can only be properly explained inline, so please add further details, with reliable sources, to the inline discussion of this that comes a short distance below, rather than inserting unsourced commentary into the caption of an unrelated (16th-century) image above. R Prazeres (talk) 16:10, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]