The capital of otherness: A geocritical exploration of Diyarbakır, Turkey.

What is it about?

External observers have often described Diyarbakır - the biggest city of Turkey’s Kurdish-inhabited southeast - as the unofficial capital of Kurdistan. In that definition the city’s primacy, as the capital of a country, coexists with its secondariness, its status as unofficial. While the city aspires to be the protagonist in a certain geographical and cultural context, it remains inexorably secondary in the institutional and political framework that encompasses it.

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