kchikurdi:kurdish women and children with turkish soldiers after a particular set of villages were e
kchikurdi:kurdish women and children with turkish soldiers after a particular set of villages were evacuated and burnt down. the men were separated and taken to god knows where. northern kurdistan. 1990s.for 24 years in a state of emergency, 3688 villages were destroyed by the turkish government. most of those villages being honey-production, which was a profession mostly held by kurds at the time. these displaced kurds were not given a warning weeks ahead of time; they were expected to get up and travel to a modern turkish city to “stop living like cavemen and integrate with the rest of society”. -- source link
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