Tents fill a clearing along the base of a hill at one of the refugee camps near Turkey's border with Iraq. The camps were established by the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes in northern Iraq to escape Iraqi government forces. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camps to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

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Tents fill a clearing along the base of a hill at one of the refugee camps near Turkey's border with Iraq. The camps were established by the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes in northern Iraq to escape Iraqi government forces. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camps to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Country: Turkey (TUR)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN April Hatton

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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25/04/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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