The City of Diyarbakır located in the south-east of Turkey is in the process of entering the World Heritage List with a unique cultural landscape of monumental city walls and Hevsel Gardens which is an agricultural land at the shores of Tigris River. Tangible and intangible values should be carefully determined and strategies for the sustainability of these values should be designed in order to prevent the adverse effects of development. This paper aims to draw the outlines for an integrated approach with cultural, social, financial and administrational aspects for this unique cultural landscape.
Résumé Dans trois villes de la région kurde, au sud-est de la Turquie (Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa et Mardin), depuis les années 2000, les activités patrimoniales et muséales se développent de manière frénétique. Le réaménagement des musées nationaux et la création de nouveaux musées dits « de la ville » accompagnent les fouilles archéologiques, les restaurations et les stratégies concurrentielles du tourisme. Plutôt que de définir une identité régionale, ces musées singularisent des territoires et des identités urbaines locales. À travers l’étude de six musées (trois musées archéologiques et trois musées de la ville), cet article propose de comprendre les processus de construction territoriale par l’action patrimoniale en analysant les configurations relationnelles locales entre institutions étatiques, autorités municipales et organisations civiles.
During the Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape UNESCO inscription process, the candidate site to World Heritage list has been rediscovered. Experts, artists, urban planners and inhabitants are now looking at Hevsel Gardens in a different way and give it a new historical and cultural value. This research aims to give an overview of the great events and works which have led the Gardens to becoming a heritage site.
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