Kurdish children play as their mothers tend cooking fires at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM
Base: Isikveren
Country: Turkey (TUR)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/04/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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