Iraqi Kurdistan: More Surprises (Part 2)

In this part we focus, in black and white, on the villagers and shepherds living in the mountains of northern Iraq in 1965.

For background text, please see the previous blog (part 1).

Iraqi Kurdistan 1965 photographs © William Carter

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8. I think this is the town of Halabja, later victim of a horrible gas attack by Saddam Hussein.

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