↑ Gunter, Michael M. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Scarecrow Press. tr. 86. Diyarbakir is often called the unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan. Its Kurdish name is Amed.
↑ King, Diane E. (2013). Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq. Rutgers University Press. tr. 233. Diyarbakir's Kurdish name is “Amed.”
↑ Watts, Nicole F. (2010). Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Studies in Modernity and National Identity). Seattle: University of Washington Press. tr. 167. ISBN978-0-295-99050-7.
