Roj Bash Kurdistan

Here are some photos that I took in Kurdistan recently. I know at least two of you have already seen them, but others might enjoy them:



The Dicle, along the road between Batman and Hasankeyf, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Hasankeyf, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Graffiti, Ulu Camii, Hasankeyf ruins.



View from the walls of Amed, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Ruins, Ulu Camii, Harran, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Stonework, Ulu Camii ruins, Harran, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Ethnic Arab girls, Harran, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan



Tour Guide, Harran, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Urfa, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Street scene, Urfa, Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.



Entrance to Halabja cemetary, liberated Kurdistan.



Peshmerga and survivor, Halabja, liberated Kurdistan.



Halabja, liberated Kurdistan.



Artwork, Halabja Memorial.



Welcome to Dohuk Governorate, Qandîl River, liberated Kurdistan.



Lake Dukan, liberated Kurdistan.



Hewlêr Pepsi factory, Hewlêr, liberated Kurdistan.



Bizin, liberated Kurdistan.



Apple blossoms, Berwarî tribal area, liberated Kurdistan.



View of Turkish-occupied Kurdistan from liberated Kurdistan.



Temple, Lalish, liberated Kurdistan.



Inside the Temple, Lalish, liberated Kurdistan.



Mother and son, Mazzurî tribe, Shanadar Cave, liberated Kurdistan.



Kurdish girl, Mazzurî tribe, Shanadar Cave, liberated Kurdistan.



Barzanîs, Shanadar, liberated Kurdistan.



Turkish tanks and soldier, Amedîya, liberated Kurdistan.



Bringing the flock home in the evening, near the Qandil River, liberated Kurdistan.



Where the Rawanduz River flows, near Rawanduz, liberated Kurdistan.



Shivan, between Hewlêr and Salahaddin, liberated Kurdistan.



Special forces peshmerga and traffic police, Dohuk, liberated Kurdistan.



Saddam's palace destroyed, east of Zawîta, liberated Kurdistan.



Sindor, near Dohuk, liberated Kurdistan.

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nice photos I saw half of them I will see the other half , later - because of slow speed of internet-


I offer you to open a free Flickr.com's account and put this photos in that , and make it a photoblog !

this photos deserve to have a place on her own.

Thanks, the pictures are beautiful. I agree with Medya. Open up a photoblog for them.

Nice photo's.. very beautiful pictures..

but this: Turkish tanks and soldier, Amedîya, liberated Kurdistan ??
So there are Turkish troops there?

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Kassem - what is your point?

I think you have no.. I just think you are thinking like a turk now... OF COURSE IT IS LIBERATED... - LIBERATED MEANS IT IS NOT UNDER FOREIGN CONTROLL... WHICH IT IS NOT!

WHat was your point anyway?

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Kassem - hey - don't take it that hard ...

If you don't understand the meaning of the word "liberated" then please don't use it... you are making fun of the language...

And well - frankly Turks would be the ones who would say such thing to diminish Kurdish achievments... WHY DO YOU WANNA MAKE SOMETHING INTO NOTHING?

Liberation of South Kurdistan from occupiers is SOMETHING - Leyla Zana's policy is NOTHING...

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thank you. i'm glad everyone likes the photos. they are part of the treasures i brought back from kurdistan. other treasures being memories and music.

kassem, i refer to bashurî kurdistan as liberated because that's how my bashurî friends in kurdistan refer to it. "liberated" does not have any connection in my mind with all the work being over, and from my observations in kurdistan, i do not believe the kurds there think the work is over either.

now that saddam is no longer a threat to bashur, people can really begin to plan for the future and invest their time, energy and money in kurdistan. before saddam's overthrow, this was not the case. a comparison of property values before and after operation iraqi freedom is one example of how liberation is really the beginning. everyone is now investing in land and the values have risen sharply and continue to increase. construction is going on everywhere and there are also foreign investors who are fueling the construction because of new business that will be created in kurdistan. what foreign company would have invested anything in kurdistan while saddam was still a threat? it would have been a business disaster to do something like that! my point is that things are only now beginning.

by the way, at certain times i do refer to bashurî kurdistan as "iraqi-occupied kurdistan" in order to stress the fact that the kurds are still held within the confines of "iraqi territorial integrity" which was created and enforced by colonial powers. besides, it makes the arabs angry to hear it.

since the great turkish republic has been in a state of serious denial for many decades regarding the existence of kurdistan, and because turks, in general, cannot even bear the sound of the word, "kurdistan," i enjoy making them really angry by using the phrase, "turkish-occupied kurdistan." it is an accurate phrase given all the jandarma, police, traffic police, village guards, etc that populate bakurî kurdistan.

i don't like having to refer to divisions within kurdistan, though. most of the time, i just use the word "kurdistan."

"too bad there's not many kurdish cuties though! "

i know. next time i go, i promise i'll get more pictures of peshmerga

i don't know about making a blog, photo or otherwise. i'd always have to be doing something with it, always updating it.

Vladimir, i have other pictures of turkish troops in liberated kurdistan. these turks are what remain of an agreement between saddam and turkey, that allowed a turkish military presence so many kilometers (15 i think) inside the border. there used to be some in hewlêr too, but they are gone now. if baghdad ever gets its act together, it will have to be the one to tell the turks to leave, or this is the plan, anyway. i wasn't supposed to take these kinds of pictures, so i had to be very careful about it. i had to shoot through the car window as we passed, without bothering about focusing and, on top of that, there were thunderstorms in the area. you can see water on the window that contributes to the smearing of the image.

pesh17, to add more pictures, you can do just like this:

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cherl, your pictures are priceless.

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I here Its breathtaking in the spring

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This is Erzurum, the largest city in northern kurdistan. Also happend to be birthplaces of ataturk i think.

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This is Ishak Pasha castle. It's right by Mount Agri. Ehmede Xani is buried also close to the palace.


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This is Urfa, Birthplaces of Ibrahim Tatlises, Sivan Perwer, and coincedently Abdullah Ocalan

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This is Dohuk, an up and coming kurdish city in my view. Those mountains turn a beautiful red in the late evening.

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Hewler's famous Geli Ali Beg

hope u enjoy guys

dont know why it didnt show
ill try to fix it later

pesh17, you need to upload them to the internet first. You can try free hosting at http://www.freeimagehosting.net/

Upload your images to that site and then you can link from the forum. There are others too, if you want to google for them.