grandma is baking our bread

(Near the Armenian border, east Turkey).

In the small Kurdish villages of east Turkey where there are no shops nor bakeries, it's the *priviledge* of the eldest woman of the family to bake the bread in oven which lies directly on the floor (called "tinur" in Kurdish, -- "tandir" in Turkish and Persian).

An honour for them, they are very proud to contribute to the well being of the family in such a way. In each family compound, even in the poorest one, there is such a dark and baren room sometimes full of smoke, which is used exclusively for baking the bread.