Diyarbakır is the main city in Turkey’s Southeast region, populated mainly by Kurds. This was a typical street scene in that part of the country.

When we first arrived in Turkey in 1996, embassy staff were prohibited from traveling to the Southeast due to a years-long conflict there between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), considered a terrorist group by the US, Turkey and the EU, and the Turkish security forces. The situation eased up, and travel to the region was once again permitted, but driving around there was at times uncomfortable and uncertain. I remember police checkpoints on the main roads, and an unfriendly atmosphere in Diyarbakır while we were there.

This scan was really a mess; I tried to redo it with my new scanner, but still, it's just not very good an image.

Diyarbakır Fortress, Tigris River, posted earlier: