Today, the Kurds are spread across four nations. Who are they?
Published 17 Aug 2019, 21:08 BST
Young Kurds wear a mix of traditional and Western clothing to a graduation at the University of Sulaimani in northern Iraq.
Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev, Nat Geo Image Collection
Kurdish families picnic less than three hours away from battle lines drawn in northern Iraq, while a man prays in the foreground.
Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev, Nat Geo Image Collection
A Kurdish farmer and his niece prepare a field for spring planting in the mountains near the Iranian border.
Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev, Nat Geo Image Collection
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