Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses / 1919-2015

Diyarbakir Oil Field

oil / oil field. has proven reserves of 16 million barrels, with production of 250 barrels a day Diyarbakır Oil Field , owned and developed in 2009 by Turkish Petroleum Company, has proven reserves of 16 million barrels, with production of 250 barrels a day. Diyarbakir, is Armenian Tigranakert, capital of the pre-Christian Armenian empire of Tigran the Great, and a See of the Armenian church. The ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Armenian and Assyrian population, reached a turning point in 1895, when more than 150 000 were deported. St. Giragos Church, the largest in the region, was restored and reopened in 2011.