Iranian photographer Ahmed Natiqi thanks Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, Kurdsat

The Iranian war photographer, Dr. Ahmed Natiqi, accompanied by Karwan Anwar, the head of the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate-Slemani Branch, and Raza Rahmatiyan, head of Jam Kurdi Media, visited the Kurdsat Media Corporation and were welcomed by Derin Latif, general manager of the Kurdsat Media Corporation. 

"I am glad to visit Slemani for the second time after 34 years over the Halabja chemical attack... I want to convey my thanks and appreciation to Mrs. Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, who helped me visit the Kurdistan Region and Halabja for the first time in 2009 and to hold my photography exhibition in Halabja and Slemani that same year," Natiqi said during the meeting.

"I am also glad that every year, on the anniversary of the Halabja tragedy, my photographs and documentary work are broadcasted on Kurdsat Channel," he added.

During an open dialogue with officials of Kurdsat, they discussed the proposal for a new documentary work on the Halabja chemical attack, where General Manager Derin Latif promised to do all the cooperation and support Dr. Ahmed Natiqi to keep the memory of Halabja chemical attack alive which is to this day the biggest atrocity against humanity in the 20th century.

Natiqi arrived in Slemani last week where he visited several institutions of the city, including the PUK Media Office, Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate-Slemani Branch, and the University of Slemani to meet with officials and give seminars and information regarding his works.

Ahmed Natiqi was born in 1958 in the south of Tehran. He began his journey as a photographer in 1970. He documented the Iran-Iraq war From 1978 to 1983. 

He also documented the Halabja tragedy and he took the famous Omar Khawar photo who died in the chemical attack holding his infant baby.

After 20 years of the Halabja tragedy, he opened an exhibition in both Slemani and Halabja in 2009, in which he demonstrated his photographic works where his move was warmly welcomed by the people of Halabja.

On March 16, 1988, the city of Halabja witnessed the most heinous crime against humanity. The city was bombed with banned chemical weapons by the fallen Iraqi Baath regime. 

Over 5,000 innocent people from children, women, and the elderly were martyred on this day and more than 10,000 were injured.



Reported by Vinos Tofiq
PUKmedia