Young Kurdish women, wearing their traditional festive costume, dancing.

This kind of dancing, called ‘Govend’ or ‘Dîlan’ in Kurdish, and ‘Halay’ in Turkish is the most popular dance form in Southeastern Anatolia. Typically, Govend/Halay dancers form a circle or a line, while holding each other with the little finger or shoulder to shoulder or even hand to hand (note the way they hold hands, with the fingers entwined).
Men and women make separate or mixed lines, depending on regional custom; here the line has an intermediate form: a women’s group has joined a men’s group, making one line, but still separate (except for one couple, where the two groups joined). While dancing, the row of dancers moves to the right (except in Hakkâri, where it goes generally to the left).

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: Folkdance Group Kavak (Dances from Anatolia), Antwerpen/Belgium & Wikipedia.