Culture. The “deq”, a Kurdish art and tradition “in danger”
In southeastern Turkey, a 24-year-old Kurd is now one of the last guardians of “deq”, an ancient art of Kurdish tattooing, taking on a form of spirituality. By perpetuating this ancestral tradition, it wishes to preserve the threatened culture of an ethnic minority marginalized by successive powers, says “Al-Jazeera”. Fatê Temel was 20 years old … Read more