This is Dashti from Erbil having a lush Kurdish meal. He grew up in Belgium, as his father, a confidant of the Kurdish leader Barzani was lobbying for the Kurdish cause in Europe. In this position, he was the first to draw the attention of Western governments to Saddam Hussein’s…
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Yazidi refugee kids near Dohuk (Northern Iraq), 2017. They had to leave their homes to flee from ISIS.
Yazidi refugees in Sharya, 2017. They fled from ISIS from their home in the Iraqi Sinjar region.
Havraz from Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan came to Germany in early 2016 at the height of the refugee crisis. He says that he wanted to escape some problems he had at home. He managed to make it to Greece by boat and reached Germany through the Balkan route. He then…