A Kurdish woman harvests lentils on Arab owned land in Syria, along the border with Turkey.

The Ishikveren Refugee Camp in Turkey was home to 200,000 Kurds from Iraq who fled after the Gulf War in 1991.

In a Turkish terrorist court in Diyarbakir, this Kurdish woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison, accused of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which seeks to create an independent state in southeastern Turkey.

Early morning calisthenics for a new group of Pesh Merga recruits in Northern Iraq

Even harsh winter conditions don’t stop these brave children from attending school. In bombed-out schoolrooms in Penjwin, Kurdish children study in three daily shifts because there aren't enough teachers, rooms or supplies.

The fastest-growing segment of the prison population is prisoners over the age of fifty.

Dennis Weiss, fifty-five, was taken into the home of Florette and Joseph Fortune (both in their sixties) after suffering a stroke.

Gerald Gross and Ricky Caminetti fell in love in their eighties. She refused to sleep with him before they got married, so he proposed within a week of their first date. Their wedding was held at a synagogue in North Miami, and over 200 guests attended.