Have you ever heard of Mardin in Turkey?
I hadn’t until last night when I had dinner in a Turkish restaurant called “Sumak” (the name of a spice) in the Crouch End district of north London.
The walls of the restaurant are adorned with four large pictures of different cities: Paris, Rome, London, and one I did not recognise.
I was told that it is Mardin, a city in the south-east of Turkey close to the border with Syria. It has a majority Kurdish population and special architectural features.