Ziya Gokalp Museum

Ziya Gokalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet who was born in Diyarbakir and died in 1924 in Istanbul. The house where he was born was opened as a museum in 1956. The building has traditional features of the local architecture, built from basalt stone with a courtyard. In the museum, Ziya Gokalp’s personal belongings and scenes of his life can be seen.