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Category:Travel and Places
Subcategory:Middle East
Subcategory Detail:Turkey
Keywords:Ezidi, Kurdistan, Leutheuser, Robert Leutheuser, Turkey, Yazidi, Yezidi, southeastern Turkey
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Evening in the Village of Bacin - southeastern Turkey (2009)

Evening in the Village of Bacin - southeastern Turkey (2009)

The Yezidis abandonned their village of Bacin in the mid-1980s, having been caught between the Kurdish PKK separatist fighters and the Turkish military. Most went to Europe as refugees. Some, like Amer, were beginnng to return to their village in the summers, rebuilding their homes and herds. (For more, please visit http://worldpeeks.blogspot.com/2009/11/yezidian-village-in-turkey.html.