Safi Haso, about 70 years old, from Girik village of Kobane. "We are probably the last generation that has tattoos," she says. "All Kurdish women had them." In addition to facial, hand and neck ...

Little else demonstrates owning your identity like a traditional face tattoo. You become a walking poster child for your lineage. Deq was weeded out by a society that forced Kurdish people to view ...

Similar tattoos can be found among Amazigh women in North Africa. And it is not hard to find elderly women and some men in Kurdish and Arab villages in the eastern part of Turkey with deq still ...

Facial tattoos or deq are popular among the Kurdish people of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Focused mainly on the chin and resembling a beard, the dotted tattoos were viewed as a sign of beauty ...

Elu Aiyana is a tattoo artist with Kurdish roots from Dersim ... Xal (pronounced as Khal), also known by some communities as Deq, which is the traditional but fading style of tattooing by hand.

In order to keep the tradion alive she's opened a workshop in Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish ... request tattoos such as the moon, sun, star, and comb, known as the motifs of deq.

Deq (Arabic: دەق) or xal (Kurdish: خاڵ) are the Arabic and Kurdish words for tattoo respectively. Traditional Deq (tattoo) or Xal has long been a part of cultural heritage in Kurdistan and Iraq, it is ...