A Kurd on the rise

摘要

Inside the freshly-painted municipal headquarters, cheerful young officials tap on their computers as residents register complaints. "My goal is to make people feel like first-class citizens, even if we can't meet all their demands," explains Osman Baydemir, the new mayor of Diyarbakir, lurkey's largest Kurdish-dominated city, which he dreams of turning into a "world-class" metropolis.