More on the Iraqi Kurds

Barzani’s Legacy Persists

 

Because 2014 may be a decisive year for the Iraqi Kurds, a flood of enthusiastic responses poured in from my recent blog which featured photos of their legendary leader, Mullah Mustafa Barzani, and other memories of my trip through their beautiful homeland.

Here, then, are more of those Kodachrome slides shot with my Leicas on assignment from LIFE in 1965.

Photographs © William Carter

1. Mullah Mustafa Barzani, spring 1965

2. Mullah Mustafa Barzani, spring 1965

3. Kurdish Peshmergas en route

4. I hiked for two weeks with these tough survivors

5. Hospitality in a local village

6. A local sheik dressed accordingly

7. The girls were no slouches, either

8. Proudly singing traditional songs in the Kurdish language

9. Peaceable Kurdistan lacks a seaport but has oil which the U.S. currently blocks the world from buying

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