Diyarbakır: The World's Longest City Wall
What does it mean to be a Watchmen on the Wall?
The black basalt stonework in Diyarbakır—the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey—set this metropolitan municipality apart.
Inside the city walls, the grey-walled monotone buildings bring on a dreary, depressing feeling. To counteract this, markets are exceptionally colorful with hand-woven rugs and intricate tapestries hanging everywhere.
Walk the Wall
My assignment when I arrived in Diyarbakır was clear: walk the wall. My first day in Diyarbakır I circumnavigated the old city, climbing atop the wall where possible. The wall is almost entirely intact, featuring 82 watchtowers and 4 gates along the 3.4 mile-long basalt fortress wall.
