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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has begun releasing partial, preliminary results in the parliamentary election.Results are not immediately available for all provinces and the commission said it is investigating complaints.The Secretary-General...
The Turkish ruler’s strongman tactics fail to work on the US and Russia
Kurds seek sanctions waiver as they try to jump-start negotiations with President Bashar Al Assad
“Lahur is in turn highly popular among the PKK’s base, particularly for his role in helping to cement the alliance between the PKK’s Syrian arm and the United States to fight the Islamic State. His harsh criticism of the KDP’s tight relations with Turkey adds to his appeal.”
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/turkeys-latest-attack-pkk-militant-iraqi-kurdistan-meant-show-strength
In recent months, Turkish drones have picked off a string of mid-level commanders in Iraqi Kurdistan and northeast Syria.
Politics ‘Masoud Barzani is a good friend of mine’ — Kurdistan is not Afghanistan! Laurie Mylroie 7 Hours Joe Biden (right), then US vice-president, meets with President Masoud Barzani in Erbil, April 28, 2016. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency) Kurdistan USA Washington Joe Biden Masoud.....
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A Turkish airstrike has killed four members of a US-backed Syrian Kurdish force.
Insightful remarks by Michael Rubin on US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Turkey and Pakistan as sponsors of terrorism
Michael Rubin addressed the catastrophic return of the Taliban in the wake of the US and allied military withdrawal, as well as wider regional issues, for an AIJAC webinar on 20 August 2021.
Peter Bergen writes that President Joe Biden is presiding over a debacle entirely of his own making in Afghanistan -- and one that has unfolded more swiftly than even the most dire prognostications.
Washington, D.C. – 28 members of the House of Representatives, led by Congressmen David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Gus Bilirakis of Florida, wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to “[express] concern over Turkey’s armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which has destabilized mul...
Dedeoglu family had previously been attacked and complained that police ignored the threat against their lives
Erdogan's depiction of Turkey as a bastion of anti-imperialism is not new—though it is an increasingly common theme of Turkish propaganda.
Roughly 900 U.S. troops, including a number of Green Berets, will remain in Syria to continue supporting and advising the Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the Islamic State.
Gökhan Yavuzel, a Kurdish writer in Wales whose name is on a hit list targeting critics of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government living in exile, was attacked in a park near his house in the capital city of Cardiff, Turkish Minute reported, citing the Artı Gerçek news website....
The White House has maintained the previous administration's demands that Ankara dispose of the Russian missile defense system.
The serene topography of the Syrian enclave of Afrin belies the power vacuum and violence now afflicting many of the territories under the control of Turkish-backed forces in the war-torn country’s northeast.
On July 19, on the ninth anniversary of the Rojava Revolution, a draft resolution was presented in the Catalan Parliament to recognize the self-rule of northern and eastern Syria and to show solida...
Brenda Shaffer, Senior Advisor for Energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), spoke to a May 21 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about Iran's multi-ethnic minorities. According to Shaffer, the size of non-Persian ethnic minorities in
Erdogan has long since dropped the pretense of friendship with the West.
SOHR activists have reported that Kurdish fighters shelled a position of Turkish troops and their proxy factions in Burj Haidar frontline in north Aleppo countryside.
Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported that Kurdish fighters shelled a position of Turkish troops and their proxy factions in Burj Haidar frontline in north Aleppo countryside. Moreover, a military car was also attacked on the same frontline, which left many dead and wounded, amid unconfirmed...
Biden and Erdogan’s relations have already been strained by a number of issues.
Edhem Barzani, a member of the Executive Board of the KDP, said in an open letter to the Kurdistan Regional Presidency, Iraq, the United Nations, political parties and civil society organizations, ...
To understand what is happening in modern Turkey is to watch how one party was able to achieve absolute power and remove “enemies” in a Stalin-like purge of Turkish society.
High in the Kurdish mountains, in the modern state of Iraq, a battle is being fought that can impact the
President Joe Biden on Saturday became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but signaling a commitment to global human rights.
“Contemporary Turkey was built on a deeply dark and disturbing foundation that has yet to be acknowledged over a hundred years later.”
Formally recognizing the genocide of Armenians is not just a matter of history, write Alex Galitsky and Steven Howard. It is a necessary first step in confronting Turkey over its present-day human rights abuses.
Located in the northwest corner of Syria, the Turkish-controlled Afrin area is largely off limits to foreign journalists. Turkish forces occupied Afrin in late 2018, in an operation dubbed Olive Branch, destroying the Kurdish authority which had
Turkey has spent millions of dollars on sometimes bizarre campaigns to dissuade the American government from calling the murder and expulsion of the vast majority of the Armenians in Anatolia during World War One a genocide.
WASHINGTON , United States — A New York based pro-Kurdish group has hired international law firm Covington and Burling LLP to advocate for the formulation of a Middle East policy in President Joe Biden’s new administration that benefits Kurds.'Justice For Kurds has asked us to...
Voice of America’s new documentary explores how Turkey smothered a free press – and made arresting its journalists a weapon. Press freedom has never been ideal in Turkey. But under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian reign, the country emerged as a top jailer of journalists. Independent and c...
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said count
Controversial verdicts in Kurdish and central Iraqi courts lead to fears for freedom of speech
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“The United States is closely following events in Turkey, including troubling moves on March 17 to strip Member of Parliament Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu of his parliamentary seat.
We are also monitoring the initiation of efforts to dissolve the People’s Democratic Party...”
The United States is closely following events in Turkey, including troubling moves on March 17 to strip Member of Parliament Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu of his parliamentary seat. We are also monitoring the initiation of efforts to dissolve the People’s Democratic Party, a decision that wo...
Turkey seeks the closure of the pro-Kurdish HDP on the grounds that its members "aim to destroy and eliminate the indivisible integrity of the state with its nation." The HDP is the seventh pro-Kurdish party to enter Turkish Parliament, born from the ashes of the parties shut down before it.
In a letter seen by openDemocracy Turkish Canadian PhD student Cihan Erdal says that he is a 'political hostage' - this is his story and his letter to the world
The author joins “The View” co-host Meghan McCain to discuss her dangerous travels and share the stories of brave women around the world, including the women of the Kurdish militia.
This unchecked power and a willing media that is mostly run by the government means they can shift messages relatively easily.
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