Tag Archive for: Diyarbakir
Acacia Blossom from Diyarbakir, by Mehmet Masum
I took this photograph of Acacia flowers in my town Diyarbakir, an old city in the region of Kurdistan. Here in this southeast part of the Turkey, when these trees turn into white with flowers, the air is filled with the sweet smell of its blossom.
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Ottoman Architecture, by Mehmet Masum
A view from Behram Pasha Mosque, an Ottoman structure built in 1572 by Behram Pahsa, Governor of Diyarbakir. The compressed stone on the upper right and left of the entrance predates by some 400 years of the pre-stressed concrete, which is still…
Gate of Castle, by Mehmet Masum
Diyarbakir is a city on the southeast of the Turkey. The city I live, is known with a long and historic walls. Walls of Diyarbakir are more than five kilometers long, among the longest of medieval fortifications; only the Great Wall of China…