«It is a steep and dusty climb on hardly paved trails, but it is worth it: in the the midst of the brown and ochre tones of the East Anatolian soil glisters at the foot of the castle hill the Lake Van in colours that can rival any Caribbean promotional brochure. Seven times as large as Lake Constance, the green-blue water reaches to the horizon, surrounded by majestic mountains, and leaving no doubt why Turquoise is the colour of the Turks.»
Oskar Piegsa published an article about our last trip to the very south-east of Turkey on Zeit online, the website of Germany’s biggest weekly paper (in German, sorry. That is what google translate “makes out of it”). Also, there’s what you proabaly call “digital photo spreads” a.k.a gallery containing some more photographs of our trips of the last years online.
Last year in summer I travelled to Iraq for a story for Neon magazine. On our way back out, we arrived late in the evening in the border town Zakho. The border crossing was closed for several hours already and we spend the night in the city. The next morning, before heading back to Diyarbakir in Turkey (for the flight to Istanbul) we did a small walk thorugh the city. At the river, a group of kids mobbed us, begging for money. We didn’t give anything but they wouldn’t stop. They then started diving into the river, from a cliff probably ten meters high into the mud-brown water. That’s when I took this picture. Actually, I needed several shots till I got this one but the boys kept diving for me. They knew they wouldn’t get any money – they dived just for the fame, for a good picture.
I just found out how to include these great Airtight flash galleries. Let me use it to show you some more pictures from my last Kurdistan trip:
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We – that is Atakürk, O.P., Yunus, and me – spend the last week or so travelling through Turkey’s far south east. One shouldn’t call this magnificent land Kurdistan since some smart Turks thought that Kurds actually do not exist and their watchdogs still bite. Instead, as a people they ought to be called ‘Mountainturks’.
I want to save my self of 301 so I stop here and show some pictures instead.
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