QANDIL, Iraq — The Land of the Medea is a nickname given to a group of villages located here in the Qandil mountains — in the semiautonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq — where the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the P.K.K., are active. The name comes from the ancient kingdom of the Medes.

It is a place without a government, yet also without disorder. It is, perhaps, in many ways, an ideal example of what philosophical anarchists wish to see in a larger community.


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