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When we talk about entertainment in Diyarbakir, we have to treat daytime and nighttime entertainment separately. The combination of a condensed city plan and climate necessitated a solution that lies in the geographical setting of the area: Recreation areas and picnic spots outside the city were always social meeting places beyond religion or social class. Kenan Ozhal has written about the "cixari" culture that blossomed here, and also about the fairs, and the velime and harifane nights. The kiraathane [coffeehouses, or literally, the 'reading houses'] were quite different from what they are today in both the physical and functional sense, and journalist Mehmet Mercan tells their story. Mercan also provides a broad perspective of the night life adventure of the city, with its meyhane [taverns], bars and pavyon [nightclubs].