Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı House Ethnography Museum

This is one of the best-preserved Diyarbakır houses and the birthplace of poet Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, born here on 2 October 1910. Built in 1733 on what is now Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Sokak in the Great Mosque quarter, it later passed to the poet's family and hosted part of his childhood and youth. The Ministry of Culture bought it in 1973, restored it and opened it as a museum on 29 October 1973, the fiftieth anniversary of the Republic, to keep his memory alive.

The house is built entirely of basalt, in two storeys around a central courtyard. Originally it had separate harem and selamlık sections, but the selamlık collapsed and only the harem survives. Its rooms follow the seasons: summer rooms face north, winter rooms south, spring rooms east and autumn rooms west. The kitchen is an iwan in the north-east corner, there is a bath in the south-west, and the courtyard facades carry decorative plasterwork known as cıs.

The house has fourteen rooms in all, and the two-floor summer room is its most important space.