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A seven-year-old, blinded by a chemical bomb in 1991, Iraq.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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A waterfall in Eastern Kurdistan (now ruled by Iran).
Photo courtesy of: Soraya Serajeddini |
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Children in the schoolyard-- Diyarbakir, Turkey. Amed was the original
name for Diyabakir before the Turkish government renamed all of the
Kurdish cities.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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A bombed farmhouse in the village of Bingol (in Turkey). Photo taken in the summer of 1997.
Photo by: Anonymous |
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Mother and daughter looking at a map of Kurdistan on Susan Meiselas' book "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History". This may be the first time they see a map of their homeland.
Photo by: Carmelo Iaria |
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Kurdish children forced to be "patriotic" on Turkish Children's Day-- a holiday that celebrates international youth, as Turkish soldiers watch in the background.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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Kurdish refugees in the filth of a refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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Women who have lost their husbands and homes hope for
assistance as they wait outside the Parliament building in Irbil, Northern Iraq. They are from Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
Photo by: Cheryl Hatch www.isisphotos.com |
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A Kurdish family picnic above Ataturk Dam. This dam, largely built illegally according to International Human Rights Protocol for Environmental Standards, displaced thousands of villagers and flooded thousands of acres of Kurdish farmlands.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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This 54 year-old woman is one of the thousands who survived yet forever altered by the chemical bombing of Halabja, a village in Northern Iraq where 5000 Kurds perished.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |