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Iraqi Kurdistan

A Kurdish truck driver from Turkey at a yard with thousands of oil tanker trucks on their way to Iraq to bring Iraqi crude oil back to Turkey. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell

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A Kurdish truck driver from Turkey at a yard with thousands of oil tanker trucks on their way to Iraq to bring Iraqi crude oil back to Turkey. Much of this oil export is illegal under UN sanctions against Iraq, but a blind eye has been turned toward the trade. The Kurds of Northern Iraq tax the transport of the oil through their territory. Turkey has been accused of cutting back on the trade in order to squeeze the Iraqi Kurds' unity, fearing independence claims from Turkey's own 12 million Kurds...Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan. 01/12/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell