El Camino Kurdish Repack

Each of these stations is marked by a collective wound. Yet, unlike fixed monuments, these stations move. A Kurdish refugee camp in Makhmur, Iraq, becomes a station. A detention center in Istanbul becomes a station. The road itself is the memorial.

: Director Yılmaz Güney wrote the script while in a Turkish prison for his political activism and empathy for the Kurdish plight. The footage was shot by his assistant, Serif Gören, and smuggled to Switzerland, where Güney edited it after escaping prison. el camino kurdish

This is the 21st-century Kurdish camino. It involves WhatsApp smuggling networks, rubber boats deflating in the Aegean, and the scent of tear gas at border fences. In 2022, I interviewed a young woman from Qamishli in a Berlin hostel. She had walked 2,500 kilometers over six months. She had no scallop shell (the symbol of the Spanish camino), but she wore a yellow-red-green bracelet. Each of these stations is marked by a collective wound

A world-famous network of ancient pilgrim routes stretching across Europe and culminating at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. A detention center in Istanbul becomes a station

They speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language with several major dialects (such as Kurmanji and Sorani).