A village elder in the north-east of Turkey, near the Kachkar Mountains.
Walking Holidays in Japan
Man and horse in the Tortum Valley near the town of Erzurum.
Men leave a mosque in the back streets of Istanbul after midday prayer.
The 28-hour journey from Ankara to Erzurum runs for much of its length beside the young Euphrates river.
An elder of the Hemsin people of the Kachkar Mountains spins wool. It was a two hour hike to this hamlet from the small village of Ayder, itself several hours truck ride deep into the mountains.

 

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