Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.
Nurcan Baysal has a dangerous dream. She wants to create a ‘school of peace’ in Sur, the devasted ancient centre of the city of Diyarbakir, eastern Turkey.
She has already got the house: a 19th-century stone building, complete with mulberry tree, she bought in 2011.
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