Newroz

This is Newroz, the Kurdish New Year in Kirkuk. Some poor guys are celebrating the new Kurdish year but soon they will be back to their miserable lives without any future, as they see it at least, in that "god forgiven city" and get killed in some terrorist attack some day.

This tough guy you should argue with. Check out the tractor celebration in the background.

You have to melt in when you are in Kirkuk in all ways.

On the evening I was back in Hewler on the “Youth of The Year” party. Nine youths in different categories were selected for their special effort. One guy won a price for building the first Kurdish airplane. We have been visiting his workshop and you will see more of it here. It is like a movie entering his workshop in a poor quarter in a basement somewhere in Kurdistan.

Kurdish dance group



Keldeean/Assyrian dance group