(20 Mar 2025)
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Akre, Iraq – 20 March 2025
1. Various of people carrying torches and walking up mountain ++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. Fireworks for Nowruz celebrations in Akre ++NIGHT SHOTS++
3. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Guevara Fawaz, participant: ++NIGHT SHOTS++ ++PART COVERED BY 4++
“It is a very nice feeling to see people from all around the world coming to Akre for this event, which makes Akre the capital of Nowruz in the world. We are very happy and welcome all our guests.”
4. Various of people doing traditional dance ++DAY SHOTS++
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people celebrated the Kurdish Nowruz spring festival on Thursday in Dohuk in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
Men and women in the northern Kurdish town of Akre, known also as the capital of Nowruz , welcomed their new year by holding torches and climbing up a mountain under colourful explosions of fireworks.
Millions of Kurdish people celebrate Nowruz on March 21, on the first day of spring.
It symbolises the passing of the dark season, and the arrival of the season of light.
It is celebrated by Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria.
The festival has political importance as it symbolises the Kurdish culture, and the struggle of the Kurds to have their own autonomous nation.
More than 20 million Kurds live in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey.
Newroz in Kurdish, or Nowruz in Farsi, means New Day and it is also known as Persian New Year.
AP video by Rashid Yahya
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