Kurdish women wearing their traditional festive costume, typical of the southeast provinces of Turkey (Hakkâri, Siirt, Şırnak, Mardin). Lots of village people from that area migrated to the Adana region. What was a seasonal migration in harvest time during the 1980s, became a permanent one during the last decades, due to the better working perspectives in the fertile Çukurova plain, and also partly because of the political instability of their home region.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: The Kavak Collection of Anatolian Costumes, Antwerpen/Belgium.
& Personal visits to Eastern Turkey (7 times from 1979 to 1999).