Osman Baydemir:Come back, Diyarbakır mayor tells Armenians
''Turkification'' through ... Extermination “ I would like to visit this monument with Turks, Armenians and Kurds all together and cry for our lost ones all together. ...'' Diyarbakır’s BDP-member mayor issues a call for exiled Armenians to ‘return to their city’ following the 1915 events while condemning the massacres as ‘cruelty’ Come back, Diyarbakır mayor tells Armenians The mayor of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality has invited all Armenians and other non-Muslim peoples whose ancestors were born in the southeastern province before being forced to flee during the 1915 events to return to the city. “An Armenian, an Assyrian and a Chaldean, whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers were born in Diyarbakır, have the same right to live in Diyarbakır as I have, [speaking] as a Kurdish person who was born in Diyarbakır. I would like to invite all the ethnic groups whose ance