Kurdish refugees at a muddy camp on the Iraq-Turkey border, during yet another crisis in their lives.
The Kurds are an ethnic group in Western Asia, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
Over a million Kurdish refugees fled Iraq in 1991 to seek sake havens along the border regions of Turkey and Iran. Many would die of cold in the mountains before they could reach safety. These are some of the luck ones.
Even in what could be considered total misery, the Iraqi Kurds still liked to smile.