Safe Haven | 2013


In April 1991 an international coalition started the operation 'Safe Haven' in northern Iraq.

This humanitarian mission was the immediate reaction to the exodus of large parts of the kurdish population. Fearing attacks from Saddam Hussein’s Baathistian government forces, many fled north towards the Turkish and Iranian borders. The missions’ goal was not only to supply nearly 500.000 people with essential goods, it also established a no fight zone, granting sustainable protection for the Kurds.

After years of persecution and repression the coalitions’ intervention meant nothing less then a unforseen break in the areas’ history which finally established the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq [KR-I].

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TURKEY
IRAN
SYRIA
IRAQ
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq Map
KR-I
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Shaqlawa Kurdistan Region of Iraq Portrait

By the Name it is Iraq

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Construction Sulaymaniyah Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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Construction Arbil Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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By the name it is Iraq.
But it is more like America.

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