BEAUTIFUL KURDISTAN

[azade_]

Ahh, that's what I'm talking about too! Well...wouldn't exactly call that guy sexy though but majestic indeed

[Diri]

Lovely photos, Azade... Again!

Dest xoş - gelek supas... Those are some awsome photos which capture the beauty of Colemêrg at it's most characteristic...

You and your husband look realy good together - God bless your marriage and may you live to share your love for 100's of years...

My regards to my brother


Dîsa - Supas!

[proudkurd]

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[azade_]

Zor supas Diri Colemêrg is so great - when we go around the last couple of montains, just before arriving, that's when I know it's the most wonderful place on earth.

proudkurd mashallah that's breathtaking!
Hope to be able to go to southern Kurdistan one day but it's suppossed to be really hard to be let in if you go there from the north?

[proudkurd]

supas azade!

yes it's very hard to go in from the north. we used to fly from istanbul to diyabekir, and then we would drive across the border, and let me tell you, it was absolutely horrible. so this year, we flew from vienna straight to erbil/havler. it was so much better

[azade_]

That sounds like a real drag. I've heard so many stories of people being denied enterance, even...but if we're gonna go there we have to drive

Here's some more pictures. They're all from my second trip to Wan and Colemêrg in May 2006. We attended my brother in laws wedding so I have a heap of pictures of that but when I went through my archive I found some more landscapey looking pictures I forgot I took

Wan


Wan


Lake Wan in the background


Somewhere between Wan and Colemêrg


Somewhere between Wan and Colemêrg


Colemêrg


Colemêrg


Colemêrg. I don't remember this particular picture but looking at it, I must have shot it from Valilik Parki or what's that name..


Us


And halay..

[proudkurd]

mashalla azade those pictures are beautiful!
how often do you visit kurdistan?

[azade_]

I'm ashamed to say that I don't exactly visit kurdistan as a whole (don't get me wrong, I'd love to travel around all over! ) but most of my in laws live in Colemêrg, and a few in Wan, so that's why I go there. It's just been 3 times now, a couple of months in total, but I'm possibly going back in October, or if not then it will be in February and I'll stay there for a few months so I'll inshallah learn to speak a little. It's about time!

[proudkurd]

mashalla good for you

[raman82]

you look really pretty in the peach dress , it looks sort of 1940s ,esp the peak shoulders . BTW this is in eastern anatolia im assuming.

[Diri]

you look really pretty in the peach dress , it looks sort of 1940s ,esp the peak shoulders . BTW this is in eastern anatolia im assuming.

But then again - the West has taken so much inspiration from Eastern fashion... Today more than ever...

Bira - why don't you call it by it's right name? It's Kurdistan, yes...

That style of Kurdish dress which Azade is wearing in those photos, is the Central Kurdish style - which is worn by mostly by Kurmancî Kurds. The Soranî Kurdish dress is slightly different - where the dress itself usually is see-through - revealing the Şelwar (trousers) and Binkiras (under-dress). And they don't normally wear a Fîstan or Kurtek over their dress - which is the tradition for Kurmancî Kurds. Often along with an apron.

She is in Colemêrg (the province) by the way - that is where I'm from myself... Although I was born on the Iranian side (her husband is from the Turkish side)...

[Diri]

@Azade

Xûşkê tu mayî kîderê???

Where did you disappear to?

In Kurdistan, perhaps? If not - you better log at the nearest internet connection available...

We're worried about you... You've not been active for a while now sis...

[raman82]

Yeah I notice kurdish chicks dress different except the men all wear that brownish peshmerga style jumpsuit. We have a version of that but its done in blues and grey and has military buttons on the shoulders , epaulets i think they are called , it looks bad ass with frye boots , i think that look will come in in western , it was donned in the late 70s, if you look at old soul train episodes.
In kashmir , Puff and peak sleeves are done with sexy outfits IMO which girls wear at functions to get bachelors and their moms to look at them . The skirt is like mermaid style and very tight , with fishtails and dragon scales at the back and the blouse is puffed cropped and shows the navel , it can make any girl LOOK INSANELY SEXY , tom ford did this my sis told me in his last collection for YSL , which actually was a nod to the orient .

[Diri]

Yeah I notice kurdish chicks dress different except the men all wear that brownish peshmerga style jumpsuit. We have a version of that but its done in blues and grey and has military buttons on the shoulders , epaulets i think they are called , it looks bad ass with frye boots , i think that look will come in in western , it was donned in the late 70s, if you look at old soul train episodes.
In kashmir , Puff and peak sleeves are done with sexy outfits IMO which girls wear at functions to get bachelors and their moms to look at them . The skirt is like mermaid style and very tight , with fishtails and dragon scales at the back and the blouse is puffed cropped and shows the navel , it can make any girl LOOK INSANELY SEXY , tom ford did this my sis told me in his last collection for YSL , which actually was a nod to the orient .

Yes - if you take a look at "Govendên Kurdî - the Kurdish dances" - thread in this forum, you will see many different styles of Kurdish clothing...

And if I haven't removed them, there should be a couple of photos of my brother in-law's wedding 2006 - I should say about page 3-4 or 5 on this thread...

[Diri]

Do you know what they're doing in this photo?


They are "playing" Hêkşerkanê or "Hêkanê" (short version)... It's a Kurdish tradition which I have explained in detail in another thread I posted! It's done on Sêzdek, which is the 13th day of the new year - when one goes out for a picnic and must stay outdoors till sunset, to avoid bad luck in the coming year!

I will find the thread I posted and revive it...