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Co-Mayors conduct site inspections for addiction support centre
10 March 2026Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayors Serra Bucak and Doğan Hatun carried out site inspections at several locations for the Substance Addiction Counselling and Education Centre planned for the city. Following the meeting entitled “Addiction, Urban Need and a Shared Solution Model...
Story Chest launched, books being collected for children
10 March 2026Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality has launched the “Story Chest” project to help bring children together with books. Storybooks collected as part of the project will be delivered to children living in the central districts and rural neighbourhoods. Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality ...
DBB athletes return from the Turkish Indoor Championships with...
09 March 2026Athletes from the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Athletics Club achieved notable results at the Özcan Kutlu U14 Turkish Indoor Championships held in Bursa. Zelal Bekmez finished as Türkiye runner-up, while Furkan Alihan took third place nationally and both secured podium finishes. A...
Co-Mayors attend Newroz declaration in Diyarbakır
09 March 2026Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayors Serra Bucak and Doğan Hatun attended the public statement on the Newroz declaration held at Sümerpark. A declaration was announced in Diyarbakır regarding this year’s Newroz celebrations, which will be held in at least 53 centres. Those atten...
Co-Mayor Bucak: Women’s organised struggle will be decisive in...
08 March 2026Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Serra Bucak, who attended the rally held at İstasyon Square for International Working Women’s Day on 8 March, said that women’s organised struggle will be decisive in building a free and peaceful society. A rally was held at Diyarbakır’s İstas...
Municipal buses in Diyarbakır to offer free travel for...
07 March 2026Under a decision taken by Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, municipal buses operating across the city will provide free travel for women on 8 March, International Working Women’s Day. The Department of Transportation is introducing a special measure for women in urban transport in obs...
Co-Mayor Hatun attends launch of report on raising multilingual...
07 March 2026Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Doğan Hatun attended the launch of a report and parent guide prepared on raising multilingual children. With the support of the Foundation for Education and Social Research for Coexistence (BEYATEV), the report titled The Possibilities and Lim...
Co-Mayor Bucak: Telling the story of Mesopotamian women is...
07 March 2026At the opening of painter Gökhan Aslan’s exhibition Projection of Silent Memory, Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Serra Bucak stressed that it is an important responsibility to tell the stories not only of the women shaped by Mesopotamia’s thousands of years of history, resist...
Diyarbakır seeks a collective response to addiction
06 March 2026At the meeting titled “Addiction, Urban Need and a Shared Solution Model”, organised by Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, Co-Mayors Serra Bucak and Doğan Hatun said that municipalities, civil society and the business community must act together in tackling addiction, and called for sol...
Women break taboos in Diyarbakır Fire Department
06 March 2026In line with its gender equality policy, Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality is increasing the visibility of women in traditionally male-dominated professions. Having expanded the employment of women drivers in public transport, the Municipality has now ushered in a new era in firefightin...
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