A Kurdish lady making some speech or public announcement. The piercing she wears in her nose is not a modern-style piece of jewelry, but an old tradition from East-Anatolia, called 'Xizêm' in Kurdish, and ‘hızma’ in Turkish.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: Pervine Jamil, Bureau Kurde, Bruxelles & Turgay Onatlı, Turkish folkdance teacher in the Netherlands.