Photojournalism

Unembedded in Iraq

The faces of the war-ravaged country.

Photo Essay by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, and Rita Leistner,
Text by Phillip Robertson

KURDISTAN, April 3, 2004

The Iranian-Kurdish wife of Osman Ocalan, a leader of the PKK Kurdish separatist group, lives simply at a camp hidden in the mountains of northern Iraq. Outlawed in Turkey, the PKK advocates an independent Kurdish homeland. (Rita Leistner)

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