Kurdish villages in Turkey sacked and Kurdish villagers forced to flee their homes in the 1990s. More than 3,000 such villages.

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Kurdish villages in Turkey sacked and Kurdish villagers forced to flee their homes in the 1990s. More than 3,000 such villages by the Turkish army to "drain the sea and catch the fish", the Kurdish PKK guerrillas and those suspected of supporting them. Mardin - Cizre area shown here.

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Location: Kurdish region of south east Turkey
Photo credit: © Sheri Laizer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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