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Abdulla Hawez

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6 months

I, as a Kurd, completely reject your feigned concern for the Kurds. You are lying; your only aim is to use anything to justify the deaths of over 8000 innocent children in Gaza. Anyone, especially Kurds, who supports Netanyahu means they endorse his widely reported genocidal

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו

@netanyahu

6 months

Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds and who holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime, is the last person who can preach morality to us. The IDF, which is the most moral army in the world, is fighting to eliminate the most

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2 years

It’s understandable to be careful when covering such incidents but literally misquoting another media outlet - who clearly said their journalist was shot dead by Israeli forces - tells you why you shouldn’t trust NYT or others when it comes to covering Israel-Palestine.

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8 years

First steps of a Syrian kid with his new prosthetic leg after losing his in airstrikes in #Syria .

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7 months

The SDF-led North East Syria region has approved an updated "Social Contract" serving as a constitution for the region, which was first approved in 2014. It is put into effect without a public referendum. TL;DR: The contract establishes a democratic, environmental and

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2 years

Erdogan says they will soon invade Tal Rifaat and Manbij areas in northwest Syria. - Tal Rifaat area is where many Kurds who fled Afrin following the Turkish invasion in 2018 live. - Manbij is a densely populated area where 500-1000 YPG fighters died to liberate from ISIS.

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Abdulla Hawez

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9 months

Ironically, Turkey has been methodically targeting the critical infrastructure in the Kurdish-led northeastern Syria - within days it has pounded over 150 sites, including power facilities, water treatment plants, energy hubs, oil fields, dams, and other essential infrastructure.

Ragıp Soylu

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9 months

Erdogan: “They cut water and electricity to Gaza. Where are the human rights? You have no right to cut water under the declaration of human rights. Can you think about the hospitals in Gaza? Do they operate? Unfortunately. But you hit hospitals and temples without any

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9 months

Nowhere is the decline of the US more visually evident than in Syria. In less than a week, Turkey has bombed over 150 sites of US partners, many within a kilometer or so of US bases. Yet, all the US managed to do was shoot down one Turkish drone. Since then, US defense and state

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 years

The story of the Middle East:

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3 years

For the first time, at least since the Crusades in 1095, Kurds are minority in Afrin. In the 3rd anniversary of Turkish full control Afrin, here is how its demography changed: Kurds before 2018: 90+% Kurds now: 30-35% (300,000) Arabs before 2018: 5% Arabs now: 65+% (460,000)

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2 years

Within two weeks: Iraq has signed an agreement with Chinese companies to build 1000 schools in two years, signed another agreement with a Chinese co to build the country’s largest refinery & other installations for $19B and China has opened a Mandarin language institute in Iraq.

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2 years

Turkish military has started a new cross-border military operation dubbed ‘Claw-Lock’ against the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan; last night, Turkish airborne commandos and special forces were dropped in some PKK heartland, clashes have equipped in several areas. A rolling thread.

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

She wasn't a 'suicide bomber'; Arin ran out of ammunition during a close-range gun battle while she was encircled so she detonated a grenade as she ran towards a group of ISIS fighters as otherwise she would've been captured alive; she killed a dozen ISIS fighters & 0 civilians.

Ragıp Soylu

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3 years

A commissioner for @USCIRF is praising YPG/PKK suicide bomber Arin Mirkin Suicide bomber, ladies and gentlemen

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 years

A statue of Majid Tamimi, the Iraqi pilot from Basra who died saving Yazidis on Sinjar Mount, to be put in one of Erbil's main streets.

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3 years

Demography of Afrin in northwest Syria three years after Turkish control: Kurds were 95% of the population in 2018, they are 25% now. The Yazidi population was 25,000, is now 2000. In 2021: 600 people have been arrested or kidnapped Data: Afrin Human Rights Organization

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

At least 10,000 students across Iraqi Kurdistan take part in a competition to memorise 40 Hadiths of prophet Muhammed; the competition is organised by the youth young of an Islamic party.

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

This is just not true. It took Turkey 65 days to capture Afrin which is 1,840 km2 while Taliban has captured most of Afghanistan which is 652,860 km² in mere 10 days. The Afghan army is far better equipped than Taliban while YPG has to fight vs NATO's second-largest military.

Ömer Özkizilcik

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3 years

Just a note: The YPG will collapse much faster than the Afghan forces.

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Abdulla Hawez

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4 months

"BBC Verify reviewed all 280 videos posted to the IDF YouTube channel from 7 October up to 27 February and found that very few contained visual evidence of fighters being killed." Men here includes many elderly and other civilians:

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3 years

Map of latest Turkish expansion in Iraqi Kurdistan. TSK is gradually creating what appears to be a belt throughout its border with Iraq. According to CPT, since the operations begun 40 days ago, 21 villages have been emptied and 4 civilians injured but no civilian deaths so far.

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

I wonder if Macron knows that 99% of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmarga who fought ISIS were actually men. Unfortunately, the female peshmergas are only used for PR and it only started following the western media coverage of 'Kurdish female fighters' who are actually YPG and PKK.

Emmanuel Macron

@EmmanuelMacron

3 years

Hommage à l'ensemble des combattants qui se sont battus en première ligne contre Daech. Aux Kurdes et à leurs forces, les Peshmergas, « ceux qui affrontent la mort ». Aux forces irakiennes. Aux membres de la coalition internationale. Aux forces françaises.

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 years

Shifa Gardi's last live coverage, just an hour before her death. We won't forget you Shifa.

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3 years

In a symbolic move: militants of Iranian Kurdish KDPI are seen in the center of Kurdish city of Oshnavieh (Shino) in northwest Iran, in the first day of Newroz. Kurdish fighters seen in the cities before but this is the first time they do so in Newroz.

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Abdulla Hawez

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6 years

Zanjar Moradi, a Kurdish activist who was executed today for his political activism along with two other Kurdish activists by #Iran regime sings a famous love song in what appears to be a prison cell:

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

PKK says the Turkish military has used chemical weapons 323 times against the group in Iraqi Kurdistan in the last six months which has resulted in the death of 33 PKK guerillas. The group has been calling for an investigation into the use of chemical weapons for a while now.

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 months

One way to understand Turkey's conflict with the PKK is through such travel advisories: If you compare these two maps of the UK's travel advice for Turkey from 2019 and 2023, you will understand how much the conflict has now essentially moved outside the Turkish border.

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Abdulla Hawez

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4 months

The only way to conclude that all men in this bar graph are fighter of Hamas is to assume that all men in Gaza including elderly are Hamas militants - and challenge every model of statistical methodology - while in reality they account for less than 2% of Gaza’s population:

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of Saddam’s chemical attack on #Halabja ; the incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history. Map of Anfal genocide: the regime attacked Kurds with chemical weapons over 30 times in 1987-88:

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2 years

Despite Turkish drones operating nearly 24/07: PKK has managed to push back Turkish army in key areas in Zap region in Iraqi Kurdistan; large increase in PKK activities in the Turkish side of the border has also led Turkish army to declare ‘special security zones’ for two weeks.

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Abdulla Hawez

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2 years

Turkish Kurdistan (or Northern Kurdistan) according to Kurdish nationalists:

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6 months

Tens of thousands in Gaza have Kurdish heritage, descended from Kurds settled there after Saladin in the 1500s. Many still have the al-Kurdi surname. For ex. Shuja'iyya area is named after Shuja' al-Din al-Kurdi. In 2023, Israel has likely killed more Kurdish civilians and

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Abdulla Hawez

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6 years

All major governmental buildings set on fire by protesters in #Iraq 's Basra; protesters have also set fire on offices of Badr, Asai'b Ahl al-Hak, Nujaba'a, Dawa party, state of law office, Hizbollah & other political party offices.

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 years

#Mosul liberated: - 265 days; - 100,000 ISF vs. 5000 ISIS; - Iraq special forces lost 40% of their men; - 80% of west Mosul destroyed.

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Abdulla Hawez

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9 months

We're likely to witness increased coordination between Russia-Turkey & Assad targeting NE Syria: - Reports suggest that Hezbollah has handed over some of its older weapons to Arab tribes fighting SDF. - Russia has been harassing US drones over Syria. - US has downed a Turkish

Charles Lister

@Charles_Lister

9 months

In case anyone missed it: A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone over NE #Syria earlier today -- I've had that confirmed by a senior U.S. official. That's a VERY rare NATO-on-NATO clash.

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8 years

Anti-coup protesters in Istanbul chant "Oh Allah, In the name of Allah, Allah is great". #TurkeyCoupAttempt

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 years

So Turkey has sent aids and rescue teams to Iraqi Kurdistan (which most of the damage is in Sulimania and Halabja provinces) but Iraq's PM al-Abadi has neither offered help nor sent teams. This is not how you build a country, @HaiderAlAbadi .

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

Kurdish prisoner, Garibe Gezer, has reportedly committed suicide while in solitary confinement in Turkey. She has earlier told her sister, “she was put in a padded cell where she was stripped in front of male guards, beaten, sexually harassed and left without medical treatment.”

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Abdulla Hawez

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6 years

Revealed: Lina S. Barzani, born in 1994, Sirwan Barzani's daughter who is Masoud Barzani's nephew 'owns' a holding worths 100s of millions of dollars in the United States and around the world. #Kurdistan #Corruption

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

Kurdistan president Nechirvan Barzani, who is in Tehran to participate in new president Ebrahim Raisi's inauguration, is received like a head of a state with only Kurdistan's flag present without an Iraqi flag. This is really interesting, no less coming from Iran!

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Abdulla Hawez

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6 years

That is huge: #Iraq government has begun blocking Iranian goods entering Iraq starting from today (complying with US sanctions on the Iranian regime).

الحرة عراق

@AlhurraIraq

6 years

تجار ايرانيون : الحكومة العراقية بدات بمنع دخول بضائع ايرانية الى العراق اعتبارا من اليوم

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Abdulla Hawez

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2 years

So US assassinates Qassem Soleimani, Erbil is bombed in retaliation. Israel bombs IRGC assets in Syria, Erbil is targeted in return. Iran nuclear negotiations don’t go well, Erbil is targeted. Iraqi government formation doesn’t go the way some groups want, Erbil gets targeted.

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Abdulla Hawez

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7 years

"One day, this war will be over, and I will go back to my poem."

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

Turkey launches a new military operation against PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish special forces have been airdropped in the mountainous areas of Zap, Matin & Avashin as Turkish warplanes have been bombing the area since last night. TR already controls areas in Hatenin & Khakurk

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3 years

A reliable source who is in daily contact with village guards: officers from Turkish military has told Kurdish village guards in Turkey to get prepared for a large-scale military operation in Iraqi Kurdistan with the participation of over 18,000 soldiers soon.

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Abdulla Hawez

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6 years

Basra protesters chant "Labaik ya Hussain" as they burn the Iranian flag following setting Iran's consulate building on fire:

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Abdulla Hawez

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2 years

By the way, what happened to the 20,000 (or more) Syrian fighters who were supposed to be fighting for Russia in Ukraine now?

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3 years

French president has met Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish leaders three times this year alone; Macron is trying hard to be the bulwark against Turkish expansion through its southern borders but France cannot do much without American blessing; in this region, hard power matters the most.

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Abdulla Hawez

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2 years

While the SDF has been busy repelling the biggest coordinated ISIS prison break attempt with 5000 ISIS prisoners rioting and clashes ongoing: Turkey has been shelling areas further north since yesterday with interrupted clashes around Ain Issa in central northern Syria.

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

Seven Kurds from the same family have reportedly been murdered in a racially-motivated attack in Turkey’s Konya; the Kurdish family was earlier attacked by the same mob on 12 May. The family’s lawyer, @avkrblt , has confirmed his seven clients including three women were murdered.

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7 years

SDF spokesperson: we welcome SAA participation in Raqqa offensive because its a national army, but refuse Turkey because it supports terror.

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7 years

Update map of N Iraq. Kurds still holding some bits of disputed areas but Fish Khabur - Iraqi forces want to control, isn't a disputed area.

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

A Turkish drone targets a car in Qamishli in northeast Syria, killing three from the same family. One of the dead is the 70-year-old Yousif Gulo. Here he says: I will sacrifice myself and my children for a free Kurdish nation and free Kurdistan.

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Abdulla Hawez

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9 months

Mike’s stance largely stems from his role as a lobbyist for Turkey and, more recently, Azerbaijan. Essentially, he receives compensation for presenting certain half-truths as genuine insights. Here is more: • He advocates that the US should capitulate to Turkey and operate

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With tensions between Ankara and Washington rising over events in NE Syria, allow me to pull this clip from the archives and dust it off. We held this session in 2019, and my views have not changed. US policy is pathological.

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6 years

Turkish military has penetrated more than 20 km into Iraqi #Kurdistan 's Erbil province, taking several villages including the town of Sidakan. Now Turkish military is few kilometres away from the large town of Choman and becoming increasingly close to Qandil Mountains.

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7 years

Clashes between Iran-backed Popular mobilisation & PKK's Yazidi affiliate, YBS. Local sources report several PMU fighters killed & injured.

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3 years

Turkish military has been unable to advance in the Matina front in northern Iraqi Kurdistan for two months now; PKK lured them to the areas close to Kesta/Hirror/Chilka villages but TSK has been stuck there with daily clashes have intensified in the last couple of weeks.

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3 years

What makes PKK unique - & unprecedented danger in the eye of Turkish state - is that it’s the 1st an-all Kurdish rebellion in the history of Turkish Republic that represents all the 3 key segments of TR’s Kurdish society: kurmanji, Zaza & Alevi. That wasn’t the case in 1925-38.

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Abdulla Hawez

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3 years

This Kurdish man was arrested for saying “Kurdistan” in Turkey’s SE. He’s accused of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization." “We are denied our mother tongue and our identity. The existence of Kurdistan is denied. We’re against that” he said.

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3 years

Another brilliant investigation by Zack Kopplin uncovers yet another of KRG PM Masrour Barzani's properties in the US: the building in Miami is worth $18.3 million. + so far, four Barzani family mansions have 'now been caught' in the US worth $75 million.

Cowboy Drugstore

Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami

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3 years

A senior PKK member, Yasin Bulut, was shot dead in the middle of a street in Sulaimania in Iraqi Kurdistan this morning. Bulut is said to be there for medical treatment. This is a new, dangerous escalation by Turkish intelligence similar to the Iranian assassinations in KRI.

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3 years

Erdogan says they have killed Sofi Nurettin in Iraqi Kurdistan. If true, it is a big deal, Sofi Nurettin, a Syrian Kurd, is one of the top leaders of PKK - second in command of the group's armed wing after Karayilan; he is said to be a brillant military strategists.

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6 years

#Afrin : 75-90% of the population is Kurdish 10-25% are Arabs 1% are Turkmen and Arminians The Afrin region boats more than 13 million olive trees. The Afrin region contains the lowest number of mosques in #Syria and religious rules and practices aren't widely followed.

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3 years

Three days after Turkish defence minister and Turkish army chief’s visit to Baghdad and Erbil: Turkish airstrikes bombard a civilian site in Choman in northeast Erbil, injuring two civilians and killing over 300 of their domistic animals: according to local media.

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Abdulla Hawez

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6 months

Her kurdêk ku piştgiriyê bide zulma Netanyahu’ê li ser Filistîniyan, divê ji xwe şerm bike. Ev helwesta, ne ji aliyê stratejîk û ne jî ji aliyê exlaqî ve, ti xizmeta doza me Kurdan nake. هەر کوردەک پشتیوانی لە ستەمکاریی نەتانیاهۆ دەکات بۆ سەر فەلەستینییەکان، پێویستە شەرم لەخۆی

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3 years

Two Syrian Kurdish refugees who live in refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan - one in Duhok and another in Erbil - have scored 100% in the 12th-grade exams and rank top in the entire region along with several others. Congratulations, Lava Mushim and Lilian Ali.

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7 years

Map of the places hit by a strong earthquake moments ago: large parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Armenia, Georgia.

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3 years

Another powerful visualization of the oppression HDP faces in Turkey. This is Hediye Babur, HDP's co-chair of İpekyolu town in Wan province in southeast Turkey, being detained by police. In the video, she says: "let everyone know, Kurds never bow down."

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2 years

The ISIS prison break attempt was only expected as over 5000 ISIS militants are held by SDF - a non-state actor with very limited resources. Europeans have been refusing to take back militants who hold their passports - with ‘friends’ like the ‘west’, one doesn’t need enemies.

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3 years

The Iraqi Kurdish peshmarga structure is actually quite tribal and patriarchal. And this is very unfair to the YPG and PKK who are truly giving women an almost equal role, unrivalled in most of the world.

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Turkish intelligence MIT claims to have killed Berfin Nurhak, one of the most senior female PKK commanders in Gara mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan; Nurhak was one of the PKK commanders who helped rescue the Yazidis in Sinjar during the ISIS onslaught in 2014.

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Syrian Kurds appear to have started a new wave of migration; according to Syrian Kurdish social media, people have been leaving Rojava - seeking better life - in droves in the last several months as the economic situation have further deteriorated.

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Demographics of Northern Iraq in 1924: Kurds: 65.2% Arabs: 20.8% Christians: 7.65% Turkmens: 4.8% Jews: 1.5%

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3 years

Families of six Kurdish underage teenagers, aged 15-16, who have been forcefully conscripted by YPG gathered in front of UN office in Qamishli in NE Syria. They haven’t been in contact with their kids since taken 20+ days ago. The protest was dispersed by Rojava security force.

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6 months

Some Kurds offer a strange argument for supporting Israel over Palestinians: the claim that Palestinians backed Saddam. This is highly absurd since even Kurdish groups from Iran and Turkey worked with Saddam—which proves nothing. Supporting a cause does not work this way. The

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There is only one article, as far as I can tell, about KDP-PKK dynamics in the mainstream US media and it is full of inaccurate and very biased reporting that makes it hard to take anything they say re: Kurds seriously. I will spell it some of them:

Iraqi Kurds Turn Against the PKK

Now that it’s beaten back the Islamic State, the Kurdistan Regional Government is focusing its attention on a group it has long tolerated.

foreignpolicy.com

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7 years

As Barzani steps down, chaos in Kurdistan parliament as a KDP mob attack opposition media by sticks, knife, may attack opposition MPs too.

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3 years

Map - Kurdistan for beginners: credit: Reddit, u/manser_hwr

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9 months

Within 72 hours, Turkish drones have targeted over 145 sites in SDF region in north Syria, including power facilities, water treatment plants, energy hubs, oil fields, dams, and other critical infrastructure. I mostly concur with this assessment by the SDF commander: the

Mazloum Abdî مظلوم عبدي

@MazloumAbdi

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خلال 72 ساعة قصفت تركيا مناطقنا الآمنة في أكثر من ١٤٥ موقعاً شملت محطات كهرباء، مياه وطاقة، مشافي ومدارس. الهجوم التركي الأخير استهدف بشكل مباشر جهود وقدرات الإدارة الذاتية بنوايا سياسية عدوانية لشل الحياة المدنية، وهو استهدافٌ للجهود الدولية وعمل منظمات المجتمع المدني والمؤسسات

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Among today's #IranProtest , people from the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in northwest Iran protest against the regime.

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3 years

Preliminary results of Syria’s presidential election: Bashar: 57% Al-Assad: 43%

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7 years

PKK has announced a self-administration in parts of Soran region in Erbil province and Pishdar region in Sulimania that they control because 'KRI experience is a failure'; they are copying Rojava's system in the new self-rule area. #Kurdistanprotests #PKK

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2 years

If reports that the US plans to lift the Caesar sanctions on the SDF parts in northeast Syria are correct: this will not only be a great news for SDF region but it has potential to lead to the development of a rival model that can seriously challenge Assad's rule.

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Salwan Momika, the man who burned the Quran in Sweden, has an intriguing past. He founded the 'Hawks Syriac Forces', an armed militia, in 2014 and allied closely with the pro-Iran Christian militia 'Babylon Birgades' which is closely funded & allied with the IRGC-backed groups.

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2 years

No Kurd is immune to the Turkish government's repression of its Kurdish population. “I don’t know what to say. I am still in shock. If we cannot sing in our own language, even on our most special day, what is the point of our existence?” the bride asked.

No respite for Kurds as Turkey's security forces ramp up repression

Musicians, newlyweds, journalists, and even restaurateurs are not immune to the Turkish government's repression of its Kurdish population.

www.al-monitor.com

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

So if France cannot stop the possibility of Turkish airstrikes for a day to let president Macron visit Sinjar in peace: what does that tell you about the French role in the region!? Not very promising.

Murad Ismael

@murad_ismael

3 years

Now these Turkish air strikes have reportedly caused President @EmmanuelMacron to cancel his long-waited visit to Sinjar which was planned (to my knowledge) but canceled due to possibility of Turkish air strikes.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

Amid talks of a fresh Turkish military offensive in N Syria: This is a good, detailed map of the foreign military bases in Syria. The US has 33 bases/posts, mostly in Hasaka (19) and Deir ez-Zor (10). In the north, from Tel Tamer to Tel Rafa’at, there is only Russian presence.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

7 years

Regardless of what you think of Barzani: truth is Erbil and Duhok are the only two Iraqi provinces still outside Iran's control/influence.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

Kurdish states in the 20th century: Kingdom of Kurdistan: 1921–1925 Republic of Ararat: 1927-1931 Republic of Mahabad: Jan to Dec 1946

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

2 years

If Turkey has indeed managed to extract all these things from Sweden and Finland, this is not only a major win for Erdogan but reaffirms the argument that 1. Erdogan really knows how to play the West and 2. manoeuvre between the Great Powers.

Ragıp Soylu

@ragipsoylu

2 years

Here are the things Turkey got: • Sweden/Finland will lift its arms embargo • Both will support Turkey on PKK, stop support to YPG • They will amend their laws on terrorism • They will share Intel with each other • They will extradite terror suspects 1/

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

2 years

Some background: This can be in connection to any or all of the following: - Iran nuclear negotiations - Barzani’s alliance with Sadr, excluding pro-Iran groups - Kurdistan president Barzani met Erdogan (& Qatar FM) today for the second time in a month, so KRG oil and gas.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

2 years

If the invasion happens, it will likely only concentrate on Tal Rifaat for now but the issue is: even if you cede territory, it is highly unlikely that Turkey will give up wanting more as we have seen before - this type of gradual expansion is the most dangerous.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

This happened in October 2014, just two days after ISIS beheaded three YPJ female fighters and just a month after thousands of Yazidi women were enslaved by ISIS. Arin was 20, a native of Afrin and mother of two.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

The level of support for the Taliban in the Iraqi Kurdish Facebook (the main social media platform) is alarming and it is mostly the reaction to what people perceive to be a similarly corruption government of KRG.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

Why Iraqi Kurds are migrating? A key reason is a total collapse of trust in the region’s institutions from judiciary to healthcare to education; there is a complete collapse of trust in KRG and it is capability to build a better future for its citizens. (Hope is a keyword here.)

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

6 years

#Afrin today as the crowds wave Syrian government and pro-YPG flags: The guy chants: "Allah, Syria, and Bashar" The crowd cheers.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

At least five KDP Peshmarga have died and two injured in a PKK ambush in Matina mountain as KDP has sent large reinforcements to the Matina region in Amedi in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

2 years

I doubt there is any other Kurdish group in history that has done more to destroy Kurdish people’s aspirations (particularly of Kurds in Iraq) than the Barzani-Talabani family duo; the harm they have infected to the idea of Kurdistan is irreversible in the foreseeable future.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

A mob of 300 attack Kurdish seasonal agricultural workers in a village in Turkey's Antalya: "Our boss's nose and ribs were broken. They told us to leave the village because we are Kurdish" "We're being [quickly] taken out of the village under the supervision of the gendarmerie."

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

7 years

The KDP Peshmerga's two elite brigades -equipped w best available weapons- led by Barzani's 2nd oldest son Mansour also deployed to Kirkuk.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

6 months

Turkey has banned flights to/from the Iraqi Kurdish Sulaimani, citing the city's alleged cooperation with the PKK. This ban has paralysed the city's air travel, as it also can’t operate flights to Europe. However, Turkey continues to have numerous daily direct flights to Israel.

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

6 years

Is there any other country as geopolitically important as Turkey? It is part of: - Europe - Asia - Balkan - Caucasus - Middle East - Thrace - Encircled by seas on three sides: Aegean, Black Sea, Mediterranean

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Abdulla Hawez

@abdullahawez

3 years

PKK attacks Turkish military outposts in the Zap region in central northern Iraqi Kurdistan. PKK says eight turkish soldiers killed and their body are with them (TSK has admitted three dead so far). They have also taken over weapons and destroyed two outposts.

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