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DIYARBAKIR:<br />
A REMARKABLE<br />
EVENT AT THE DOOR<br />
The World Federation of Tourism Journalists and Writers (FIJET) awarded<br />
Diyarbakır with its prestigious Golden Apple on 27 October 2018. FIJET given<br />
this reward not only for the city’s recent advancements in the tourism industry,<br />
but also to honour Diyarbakır’s profound historic and cultural heritage…<br />
SİDAL YAŞAR - DİYARBAKIR<br />
On the banks of the life-giving Tigris river, man discovered<br />
the magic of the earth in the northern Mesopotamia<br />
12,000 years ago. They abandoned their<br />
weapons to hunt and adopted the seed to plant. They<br />
dressed the stone and built the civilization. Kingdoms<br />
were born, wars have been made. However, a city<br />
taking its vitality from the Tigris resisted against all<br />
the destructions and survived until today. Once which<br />
had become a residence to majestic civilizations from<br />
Assyrian to Persian, from Roman to Ottoman, the city<br />
of Diyarbakır turned out to be a universal heritage of<br />
all humankind beyond the borders.<br />
Shortly after the exploration of an archaeological<br />
site in the 1960s, the name of Diyarbakır has started<br />
appearing in almost all of the books of history of<br />
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