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Turkey: Diyarbaki

On the shores of the Tigris, the town "city" Diyarbakir lies behind mighty "powerful", in 1700 year-old Byzantine basalt walls, it is the most important town "city" in the southeast of Turkey. Diyarbakir owns the biggest and best erhaltenste connection layout of the world after the Great Wall of China. She "it" exists "consists" to the biggest share "part" of basalt. It is not yet long, there raved in the villages around and up to the borders with Syria, Iraq and Iran a civil war between separatistischen and Stalinist Kurdish guerrilla warfare, PKK, and the Turkish army. More than 30000 people were killed in the war, the middle of the 80s had begun, hundreds of villages were destroyed, ten thousands lost her "their" native country and fled in the towns "cities". Diyarbaki, was the spiritual "mental" center of the Kurdish resistance, is by the electricity of the refugees to a chaotic million town with new buildings aufgequollen, they turned into slums already before her "their" completion. Besides, in Diyarbakir grow the biggest melons of the world which reach "arrive" up to 65 kg.

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