We Survived Iraq and Turkey A True Story of an Iraqi Kurdish Family's Escape to USA in 1990 Long Road to Freedom provides a compelling account of one family's quest for freedom, for escape from the brutal Saddam Hussein regime and the search for a better life in America. The book recounts Taha Muhammad's early life in Kirkuk, Iraq, and his experience in leading his wife and four sons through treacherous mountain country into Turkey, where the family encountered more oppression and discrimination at the hands of Turkish military and security forces. After surviving several life threatening...

This sincere bold book contains our memories in Iraq and Turkey when my family and I escaped from Iraq to Turkey November 1990. Saddam was strong and occupying Kuwait. Through my memories I highlighted in this book Iraqi Government's 1920- 1990 dictatorship system against Kurdistan. I described in the book the Turkish occupation on the big part of Kurdistan. Unfortunately, we took our way to escape the dictator Saddam regime from Iraq to Turkey, thinking that Turkey will take into account the state asylum laws. If we entered Turkey, then we will get there fatherly kindness. But we bumped into...