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    DREAMING OF SUR

    Jun 18, 2020 3 minutes

    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 19thcentury stone building, complete with mulberry tree, she bought in 2011.

    The Kurdish writer, journalist and human rights activist grew up in Sur, a World Heritage Site, and was determined that the peace centre should belong to its people and support its mainly working-class community. It would be a place where children learned about peace, which could

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