Pico van Houtryve

Kurds

A Kurdish shepherd reaches into his pocket for tobacco and cigarette paper near Mt. Ararat in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

Pinar poses for her portrait outside her Kanikurk village home near Mt. Ararat in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

A Kurdish boy plays with a mirror during a Kurdish wedding in the village of Aspava in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

Kurdish children gather water at a spring on the outskirts of the village of Kanikurk near Mt. Ararat in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

Kurdish men spend the afternoon in a teahouse in the city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

Young Kurdish men unload hay from a truck in the village of Kanikurk near Mt. Ararat in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

Young Kurdish men congregate at a wedding in the village of Aspava near Mt. Ararat in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

Kurdish children tend to livestock on the outskirts of the village of Kanikurk near Mt. Ararat in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

A young Kurdish boy smokes a Turkish cigarette in the streets of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)

A Kurdish boy in southeast Turkey is in tow as we depart his village, Kanikurk. Behind him is Mt. Ararat and his burned-out school. (September 1996 photo © Pico van Houtryve)