Image of sheet 19901080 photo 6: 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

Portrait Salih Hagi Husseiyn irakischer Leiter der Peschmerga Diyarbakir kurdische Türkei 1990. T

Sheet 19901080 Photo 6

Color: Black & White
Type: Positive, Negative, Digital
Country: Türkei
Region: Kurdistan
Place: Dijarbakir
Date: Dec 13, 1990