Kurds in mountain prison cower as Turkey fights PKK with drones in Iraq
Mukhlis Adam’s mother and sisters at his grave in Sheladze. Adam was killed by an airstrike in June 2020, aged 28. Photograph: Adam Gnych/The Guardian
Mukhlis Adam’s mother and sisters at his grave in Sheladze. Adam was killed by an airstrike in June 2020, aged 28. Photograph: Adam Gnych/The Guardian
As decades-old battle intensifies, civilians count cost in lives and livelihoods
Bethan McKernan in Istanbul and Adam Gnych in Amedi, northern Iraq
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It took 10 days to find Muhsin Speri’s body. The 64-year-old had left his town in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan along with friends Hassan Sadiq and Safar Sini on a dry, windy day in December last year to fish and forage for wild honey and mushrooms.