Image of sheet 19901070 photo 27: Ein iraqischer Kurde lebt als Flüchtling in Diyarbakir. Türkei Kurdistan. 12.90 Kurdish Turkey iraqi kurd refugee man turkish Kurds Ostanatolien Kurden 1990 √ The keffiyeh/kufiya (Arabic: كوفية‎, kūfiyyah, plural كوفيات, kūfiyyāt), also better known as a ghutrah (غُترَة) or shemagh (شماغ), and also known by some as ḥaṭṭah (حَطّة), mashadah (مَشَدة), or in Persian chafiye (چَفیِه), and in Kurdish cemedanî ( جه مه داني), is a traditional Arab headdress fashioned from a square, usually cotton, scarf. It is typically worn by Arab men, as well as some Kurds Peshmerga or Peshmerge (Kurdish: پێشمەرگە Pêşmerge) is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning "those who face death" (Pesh front + marg death) the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been in existence since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires which had jointly ruled over the area. Peshmerga forces include women in their ranks. Many Kurds will say that all Kurds willing to fight for their rights are Peshmerga. The term remains in contemporary usage, sometimes written as pesh merga in Anglophone media. © 1990, OLIVIA HEUSSLER / www.clic.li

Sheet 19901070 Photo 27

Color: Black & White
Type: Positive, Negative, Digital
Formats: 18x24, 30x40
Chemistry: Baryt
Country: Türkei
Region: Kurdistan
Place: Djyarbakir
Date: Dec 14, 1990