Photojournalist Mark West was 27 when he decided to travel to Turkey and Iraq to cover the story of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The group says it fights for the self-determination and rights of the Kurdish people, an ethnic group spread throughout West Asia. A makeshift PKK bakery feeds hungry soldiers in the Zagros mountains in Turkish Kurdistan. He says he was given a typewritten pass which he was to show to any PKK soldiers who stopped him while he was travelling to his lodgings in Erbil, Iraq. Winter sets in as PKK soldiers are on parade.

Source: CBC News March 05, 2017 17:00 UTC