a law ensemble movements did. i'm iranian, when i'm proud to still be able to speak my native language turkish parcel. and that below is how we've been able to hold on to our language and culture on the missouri virtual thief. totally new to truth levied in a true sure will be to the year that she probably little to shinta breeds. we all help each other. almost europe is your home. what you won't see any beggars here through the chat with other public her booked among the should i, ron is a big country with many different languages and nationalities on that. all get along very well to big on live the truth from federal ah ah. outside seabreeze, the ancient so crowd that linked peoples and cultures continues to cross the

mountains to the southwest. the mountains also offered an unusual refuge to people . fleeing the mongol owe me some 700 years ago. they took to the cave to hide over the generations. they cut off the entire village of count yvonne into the volcanic rock at the foot of the sa hunt volcano. the homes are now known as cut on the word for bee hive in the local turkish dialect. over the years, the villages extended their dwellings. today most are between 2 and full stories and include living space, storage rooms, and shell to full animals. while some found refuge in the lava caves, others found peace in even more forbidding and remote mountain landscapes. in far north west of the country,

the monastery of saint to deus was established on a barren plateau. at an elevation of almost 2000 meters, the monastery complex dates mainly from the 13th century. but according to armenian tradition, saint, today, his 1st built a church here and found at the monastery around the years, 66, st. to deus, also known as judas, to deus. oh jude. the apostle is said to be buried here. ah, and armenians who fled the genocide in turkey for iran, also sought refuge here. ah, to day the orthodox monastery has a new neighbor, a muslim, sunny village,

another symbol of the peaceful coexistence of religious communities in iran. a young muslim man from the village. tense to the monastery. ah, monday you saw lawn, i work for the iranian cultural heritage organization. corum of a job career. how them i'm a technician. i tend to the renovation of and maintaining the building. it was a goes by basically do i make all the necessary repairs to the masonry and the electric school and i will have them. i also tend to the cleaning about about john's army. kelly saw a church is the heart of our village who saw him out of the church, the village and the villagers are bound to each other. like the links of a chain i'm getting for them.

ah, once a year the church takes out of the daily life and the vintage the monastery is a place of pilgrimage for orthodox armenian christians, adomonion because had assaulted the shower that armenians gather here from around the world machine to celebrate the anniversary of saint today of his martyrdom it. well, it's a 3 day ceremony with baptisms blessings, wedding shy and processions around the church up hold one account. they also sacrifice a land. joe michel been with us some that could associate. i remember when i was little and we children were afraid to enter the church and off at the 1st time i was really inside the church was when i was 8 i the county. so dusta. oh char, the church in the village or my home. i feel responsible to both of them because i grew up with them maybe. ah,

any math or the ambition the kid is subtle. yahoo, yah, kelly, so you, i'm 23 and i've always lived here man. this, but the indoor i saw in mass will. yeah. that was, oh you, dora, and then be so so, so send out, i mean john mo, most of my childhood friends, the people i went to school with have left of that they had other dream slab, alshaun door ma, literally also latham wooster for them. when all the meat we eat comes from our herds, the animals we raise ourselves, she hits excellent dogs. the same goes for the milk or door by women of this village work alongside their husband said to call back one of either noon, or even the bread is made with flour from our whitfield yard on the far, then we cannot. we chose this light dental drink and we want to live it to the fullest even put him 3 shot.

well the albert is my safe stretches across the north of iran. those across mountains form a natural border to iraq on the west. these craggy peaks and remote valleys, a home to the iranian province of kurdistan. the kurtz, or iran, 2nd largest minority, after the other by johnny turn. the region has its own distinct cultural and political identity, which it owes in part to its isolated geography. villages are scattered in the mountains with unspoiled nature. as far as the i can see, the province is known for its forests. one of the rounds largest 2nd only to the forest at the caspian sea. the fertile soil held sustain a bounty of oak trees,

fruit, trees, and precious woods is singular environment that helps give birth to an old tradition. ah, ah, ah, i'm, he should feed me kinda both. i used to think that when a tree is felled, it dies. believe rob, but now i know michelle, nobody is in the you the what a vish. but she did, when a tree becomes a musical instrument, it lives on the new ah ah, ah, in the past,

these instruments made of high quality local woods, were played by traveling bars and showmen, music and song preserved, the old traditions. and music itself is passed down from one generation to the next . but they all pioneers, like rockmart a ye, me the 1st in his family to become an artist and craftsman here in the regional capital of son and dodge it as much builds and repairs musical instruments using the finest natural materials in the kurdish tradition. i love him, i thought i was already working with wood,

but it was mainly my interest in music that led me to stop building taz and other musical instruments made of wood. i decided to dedicate myself to making instruments, stringed instruments because of my love for music. this was the i need that us is alone. originally. i wanted to be a musician myself, a whole bunch. but i couldn't find a good instrument here. that's when i started becoming interested in making instrumental love. and finally i became a leute make myself up. ah, jim, on jazz this commentary is made with inlaid would love to show the i could imagine there are a 140 strips of wood, different woods. she done and she suffered crowded. yeah. to me about it.

but my mom is arranging the strips on this round surface that they fit together perfectly. is very challenging about jen situation of cardboard. and all this would do, i used our wall much were you and orange tree has fish not inch has fish the neck is decorated with ebony by its magnificent instrument message then ah if he doesn't do that, what he shook my po, quote, this honest hewick is something we could have in our blood, a hot air in my home, i took to my mama, there's such a variety of melodies in kurdistan. every region has its own musical style,

a young pile on fire topic with . 7 7 further, a cliff, hundreds of mesas high overlooks the neighboring plain. these are torn is located on the royal road that once lengthy iranian plateau to mesopotamia, king doris the 1st, to build the commercial route in the 5th century, b. e. more than 2500 kilometers long,

it was intended to facilitate communication across his vast empire. with this bass relief more than 15 meters high and 25 meters wide, depicts doris holding a bow with his foot on the chest of a man lying on his back in front of him. roughly 1200 lines long. the inscription tells the story of how doris defeated the 9 lying kings who had tried to defy the persian empire. the monumental relief carved on the cliff about 60 meters above the plain was meant to send a message to his subjects. i'm to future generations embracing past and

present the people of iran live in harmony with their changing landscapes. ah ah. ah, small acts can inspire big changes, meet the people breaking a possible is go africa joined them as they set out to save the environment, learn from one another and work together for

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