Commemoration and re-enactment of the liberation of Urfa from the European powers under Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. Kurds celebrate.


Commemoration and re-enactment of the liberation of Urfa, Kurdish region of Turkey from the European powers under Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. Kurds celebrate in folk costume a legal Turkish State event in 1986 when many Kurds still wore their national dress all the time. This participant lets his son hold the gun and is dressed in historic garb for the occasion.


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Location: Urfa, south east Turkey
Photo credit: © Sheri Laizer / Alamy / Afripics
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