![]() ![]() “The president said then we should just demolish the prison, but in my opinion we have to keep it in order to both confront the past and heal as a community. ![]() “When the peace process was at its peak 10 years ago, we had a similar discussion,” said Dilan Kaya Taşdelen, a Diyarbakır-based urban planner. Other restoration and regeneration projects undertaken during Erdoğan’s time in office have been fiercely criticised for damaging important historical sites. Almost everyone agrees the prison should be closed down, but some worry that if the project is not sensitively managed an important piece of Kurdish history will be lost – or even whitewashed. The decision has been met with a mixed reaction, in large part because no one knows exactly what the president means by “cultural centre”. But on a rare visit to the city last week, his first in two and a half years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the site would be turned into a cultural centre. Diyarbakır prison is still a functioning jail today. ![]()
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