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Diyarbakır Promotion, Culture and Solidarity Foundation (DİTAV) Chair Erhan Akalınlar invites everyone to the Zerzevan Castle, which is on the UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.

Amid plans and works to build a ‘Nation’s Garden’ around the lake, Lake Salda Preservation Association Chair Gazi Osman Şakar has made an application to UNESCO, requesting that the lake and its vicinity be declared a Natural World Heritage Site.

In a written statement, the Ecology Union has warned that Diyarbakır’s Hevsel Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, face a threat of devastation and ecological destruction due to construction works for a nation’s garden project.

A counter forum is being held on grounds of lacking of trust in the discourse of World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on ‘’ common heritage’’ , ‘’ impartiality’’ and ‘’protection’’.

UNESCO World Heritage Committee in its 40th meeting has not opened the decision draft regarding the Sur district of Diyarbakır which is on the World Heritage List to discussion of members at all and passed it the way it way.

The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne is one of 25 new inscriptions to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The mosque was built by Architect Sinan in the 16th century and is the 10th inscription from Turkey.