The mayor of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality has invited all Armenians and other non-Muslim peoples whose ancestors were born in the southeastern province before being forced to flee during the 1915 events to return to the city. "An Armenian, an Assyrian and a Chaldean, whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers were born in Diyarbakır, have the same right to live in Diyarbakır as I have, [speaking] as a Kurdish person who was born in Diyarbakır. I would like to invite all the ethnic groups whose ancestors lived in Diyarbakır back to Diyarbakır again. Come back to your city," Osman Baydemir told Turkish and Armenian journalists on Sept. 25 on the sidelines of a roundtable conference called "Expanding the Scope of Dialogue: Media and Armenia-Turkey Relations at the Current Stage" that was organized by the Yerevan Press Club in Diyarbakır. Kurds, Armenians, Chaldeans, Yezidis and all the ethnic groups that once lived in Diyarbakır took part in the construction of Diyarbakır's city walls, Baydemir said. "So all of these people have a right to this city." According to "Talat Paşa's Black Book," written by the historian Murat Bardak