by Mark Muller, Kerim Yildiz
Photobook, Grouppublication
The Kurdish people have a population of over 28 million people spread out over five countries, but without an existing border of a country to call their own. The region known to many as Kurdistan presently comprises parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Armenia. It is a land of stark beauty but also one engulfed in conflict; for centuries, empires, states and warring tribes have fought for control of this most inaccessible mountainous region with varying degrees of success.
..."I would like to say two last things. One is that I really do believe that the Kurdish people are a wonderful people. Their dignity and their courage and their will and their refusal to submit to terror is remarkable. They are a body of people who have their own extremely distinguished culture and traditions. And I believe they will prevail. They have to , but they must be given our total support. I'd like to finish here by reading something wich I think is a remarkable piece of prose by Dario Fo, wich he actually wrote quite recently and submitted to the Turkish press. «Kurdistan lives. It burn in the mind of every single person of the 35 million people who were robbed of their identity and made into refugees in Turkey, Iraq and Europe. It is..."
From Harold Pinter's Introductory Speech when accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
trolley books London (GB) Kurdish Human Rights Project
