TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
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TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. View from a barbershop near Taksim Square.
Istanbul, Belgrade Capi. Preparations for the representation of the conquest of Istanbul by the Ottomans in 1453.
UZBEKISTAN. Bukhara. Students of Mir Arab medersa (koranic school). 1993.
Polis İslam Akademisi. Miğferde "Allah en büyüktür" yazıyor.
TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
TURKEY. Istanbul. 2001. Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan.
AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. A Northern Alliance soldier guarding Pakistan and Taliban prisoners. 2001.
AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. April, 2002.
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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. In August government members inaugurated a giant agricultural fair. The general commissioner, Tsistsin, member of the Academy, saw it as a permanent element in the aims of education. Many diverse Soviet Republics participated at this fair where they displayed various products, photographs, diagrams, and graphics demonstrating the evolution and methods of production.
Строительство гостиницы "Ташкент" (на заднем плане). Театральная площадь, крыльцо театра Навои. Фото Эриха Лессинга. 1958 г.
Uzbekistan. Taschkent. Folkdancers. Erich Lessing
In the villages of the North, "Canun" is the prevailing law. Canun is a book which defines among many other things except the ways of taking the law into one's hands.
A vendetta starts between two families when someone is injustly killed. Then, the family of the victim has to "take the blood back". It is estimated that in 1996 about 45 000 people have been hiding in houses or in the mountains because their families "own blood", which makes them possible victims. About 6 000 male children live enclosed in houses without going to school for the same reason. In Perlat village the family of Gin DONDA has just lost the son Armand in a long vendetta with the SULEIMANI family.
Now the DONDA men are obliged to kill in revence.
The wife of the victim in her room.
IRAK. Kurds. 1974. Peshmergas "Freedom Fighters" defend their village.
The Democratic Party of the Irakians Kurds (PDK) under the leadership of General Mollal Mustapha BARZANI, has been waging a war from 1961 to 1970 against Irak to suceed the Kurds autonomy - the Kurds composed roughly one third of the Irakian population concentrated in the north of the country near the oils fields of Mossul. Finaly the peace concluded in 1970. But the autonomy and the other reforms have not been granted to Kurdistan and the revolution started in March 1974 under the same leadership of General Mollal Mustapha BARZANI, president of the Kurd Revolutionary Comittee of 9 which includes two of his sons, Idriss and Masrout BARZANI. The revolutionary forces of Kurdistan are estimated to be 45000 Peshmergas(freedom fighters) against 15000 in the first revolt.
