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Journalist | MSc Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies @EdinburghUni #JinJ îyanAzadî

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Zozan Yasar
1 year
Mom, we made a film that the world will understand, but you won't. I wish we could have made it in your language, but this is bigger than you, me, and our Kurdish cause. This is not a refugee crisis. It's a world political crisis, and we had to make it in English. I'm sorry, Mom!
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Former Kurdish MP @baydemirosman speaks in front of #BBC in London. Baydemir says: “İf we don’t stand up against #TurkishInvasion today the history will repeat itself and we will relive the genocide once again.” #riseup4rojava #KurdishGenocide
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
University of Rojava has named the main lecture hall as “hall of David Graeber” in order to express their gratitude for his solidarity work with the Rojava Revolution.
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6 years
With my mom in #Hewl êr When she complains about me living abroad and I answer singing!
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From Tal Temir: A Kurdish man who is defending his land against #TurkishInvasion says: “Whatever happens, we won’t leave our homeland and our people. A drop of our martyrs blood values countries .” #TwitterKurds
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My first year in the UK- I joined English classes and I introduced myself Kurdish from Kurdistan without knowing that there was a Turkish guy in the class. He shouted and said there is no Kurdistan and Kurds. The classroom was international and the teacher only said no Politics!
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Zozan Yasar
6 years
Bizim yan köyün imami beni seviyormuş ve benimle evlenmek istiyormuş. Sordum peki ben açık saçık biriyim Avrupa’larda geziyorum/ takılıyorum..bunlar sorun değil mi onun için diye.Imam yok evlenince kapatırım zaten demiş! Not: İmami hiç görmedim o da beni internetten görmüş! 😅
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
#Azizoruc is a journalist not a terrorist. He should be released immediately. #journalismisnotacrime
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Here are two photos of Hasankeyf; one before Turkish government’s project the other one is from shameful project of government. Ahh my beautiful! they are the enemy of history, nature, and beautiful people.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
If you don’t have high technology how can you pursue an education in a war zone during the COVID-19? The education committee of Rojava/Northern Syria is trying to give the children access to education by using TV stations. Here is the video on how they are working hard.
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“The fact is that Turkey is invading Syria and they [Kurdish fighters] are defending their homes. I am not that neutral about that.I feel very personal [feelings] about these people.” @joeyldotcom thanks for your beautiful solidarity. by @vvanwilgenburg
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6 years
The best festival ever in #Akre the #Nawroz
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
I just got informed that I have a hearing on the 27th of February in Istanbul. Turkish government made a case against me without taking any statement from me. I am accused of propagating terror. They even banned me from leaving the country.
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
Konferans #ISID üzerine siz sevgili #T ürkiye neden bu kadar üzerinize aldınız ki? iŞİD e karşı olmanız gerekiyordu ama? yanında olduğununuz için mi incindiniz? #TwitterKurds
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Kamışlı'da Türkiye karşıtı terör zirvesi!
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Çiçek Kobanê, who was wounded and captured by the FSA group last October during the Turkish invasion of northern Syria has attended the first hearing court in Urfa. The court rejected the release of Kobane, and decided to prolong her detention until the next hearing 28 of July.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Kurdish businessman Savas Buldan was kidnapped and murdered on 3 June 1994 in Turkey. Zelal, the daughter of Savas Buldan was born in the day that her father was murdered. She has never seen her father. Here is her documentary "About My Father"
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4 years
Microsoft Translator announced its support for both Kurdish, Kurmanji and Sorani dialects. @Microsoft
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5 years
İn #Edinburgh there are two barbers facing each other; one is called #Kudistan other Turkish. Hope they are working in peace😊
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
It was a privilege to assist the @OIRSpox with Kurdish translations. The @coalition 's use of Kurdish language is an important recognition & sign of respect for its local anti-ISIS security partners in the Kurdistan region & northern Syria. Thanks @mylescaggins & @CJTFOIR
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Hello Twitter, Thanks for following my @CJTFOIR updates since Aug ‘19...my farewell note is attached. 📝 ~Colonel Caggins Welcome to Colonel Wayne Marotto new @OIRspox Good luck! You can follow Col Myles Caggins @mylescaggins Qewet be! ✌🏼 مع السلامة 👋 بەھیوای دیدار.. 🛫
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Zozan Yasar
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Li ser bangewazîya @cetinrabiaaa ez jî bi videoyekî li we bangewazî dikim #jimaldernekevin xwe û hezkirîyên xwe biparêzin. #Coronavid19 ne heneke me dikuje. Ez jî rojnamegerên hêja @Rebaz_Majeed û @vvanwilgenburg vedixwînim ji bo piştgirîyê
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Pîroz be @yeniyasamgazete bi salên xweş û bi agahiyên xweş li pêşberî me bî. Min û Fehim abê ( @Fehim_Isik ) bi Kurdî pîroz kir.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Today American linguist Dr. Michael Chyet on an online class randomly said: “We Kurds should...” bu I think he just feels very Kurdish. Zimanzanê Amerîkî Dr. Michael Chyet îro bi şaşî got “divê em Kurd..” min qet nedîtibû ku bîyanîyekî ewqas xwe Kurd hiskiribû.
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4 years
Dengek xweş bi xwezaya Kurdistanê @rukenyillmaz
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
İf it makes you happy I was arrested before.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
It was the beginning of 21st century and I was a little child.I collected beautiful flowers for my mom but,she didn’t understand and threw them cos nobody was celebrating this day in my village and I told her that it is Mother’s Day. Now, she gets angry when I don’t celebrate it.
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Zozan Yasar
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Let me tell you more- I gained one of the best university and was shortlisted for a scholarship in Istanbul. During interview I was asked 4 questions: which city I was from, if I was a terrorist, if I was carrying a knife and If I ever threw stones to the police.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
As a jobless journalist today I have interviewed my mom in Kurdish about Women Rights. She said: “men still persecute women; we need to stand against, teke action and they have to be arrested.” Was soo much fun!
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
If you ask me what is the hardest moment working as a journalist, I would definitely say writing about Yezidis. Too much pain...
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Zozan Yasar
8 months
An exiled Kurdish lady is smoking. Edinburgh, 2024 (black and white)
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
The photo is great, but can anyone find the photographer and ask him why he put his name on her gun?
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
İlhan Ehmed is in London and talks about current development in northern Syria
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
Bir Kürt bana sormuştu “Türkiye Futbol Takımı Kazanınca gurur duymuyor musun?” Diye. Yok; bir Kürt edebiyat ödülü alınca, bilim ödülü alınca ya da Kürtlerin en ufak bir başarısı ile gururlanıyorum ben dedim. Bir de Amedspor’umuz var tabiki☺️ Şaşırdı.
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350 bin nüfuslu 1 Devlete Yenildi Türkiye Milli Takımı Sporun içine ettiniz ..!
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
I have interviewed Scottish Kurdish @theSNP Glasgow list candidate @RozaSalih for @bellacaledonia Kurdish genocide survivor hopes to be first MSP for Scottish Independence Party
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
I wrote about online Kurdojogy project. University of #INALCO Provides online academic project in onder to develop Kurdish studies in Rojava/Northeastern Syria. Online Kurdology Project Supports the University in Rojava Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Let me show you Turkey's biggest slaughter project which is called the Southeastern Anatolia Project (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi-GAP). Under the "restoration and revitalization of the cultural activities in the region" they respectively destroyed the nature of Kurdish city cities.
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4 years
This is the only evidence of my childhood. Probably, it was the end of 20th century...
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
Fernando Sanchez Grassa fall from a mountain in the Himalayas yesterday. Fernando, has been in Rojava before and was trying to put #YPG flag at the top of Himalayas to raise awareness of current situation of Rojava and he died at age of 44. #RIP
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
From today’s presentation at the University of Nottingham. The question behind is “where are the Kurd?” My answer: Kurds are in my heart! I loved the picture. Thanks to @KurdishProject for this great map and @ViviennePat for the photo.
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Zozan Yasar
3 years
Refugees can vote in Scotland. I voted for the first time in the UK! #ScottishElections2021
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Zozan Yasar
9 months
Kurdish politician Demirtaş, who has been in prison for 6 years, defenses in the Kobanê Trial. "You stole my land, my wheat, my bakery. You can't even say the name of the country. You can't say 'Kurdistan.' Because they set the rules. They named it the Turkish Penal Code."
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🔴Selahattin Demirtaş, Kobanê Davası'nda savunmasına devam ediyor 'Sen benim toprağımı, buğdayımı, fırınımı çaldın. Ülkenin adını bile söyleyemezsin. 'Kürdistan' diyemezsin. Çünkü kuralları onlar koydu. Adına da Türk Ceza Kanunu demişler'
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Zozan Yasar
6 years
Newroz in #Akre pîroz be!
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#NewProfiePic Hello spring!
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Zozan Yasar
5 years
Kurdish documentarist Soran Qurbanî tested #coronavirus positive. He was infected in Turkey while following the refugee crisis in Edirne. He is quarantined in the UK.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
My grandma was 80 years old when a group of Kurdish party members visited my village. There was a guy talking with my grandma and trying to convince her to vote for them but my grandma rejected them and she said: “I will only vote for Leyla Zana, never ever ask me again.” (1)
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Krîstmas a te jî pîroz be! 💚 @GretaThunberg Krîstmasê bi Kurdî pîroz kir.
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Greta Thunberg
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Joyeux noël! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Feliz navidad! Happy holidays! God jul! ! عيد ميلاد سعيد! חג מולד שמח Hyvää joulua! क्रिसमस की बधाई! Buon Natale! メリークリスマス! 圣诞节快乐! Kirîstmas piroz be! 메리 크리스마스! Feliz Natal! Wesołych Świąt! С Рождеством! Krismasi Njema!
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Approximately 12,000 SDF(YPG/YPJ) fighters have died fighting ISIS since 2014.
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
How can over 40 million Kurds/people be terrorists? #TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
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Zozan Yasar
8 months
Amed/Diyarbekir!
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@archi_tradition
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Which city's old town is your favorite? I’ll start:
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5 years
“Please we just need peace, stop this war.”
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
London: “Boris Johnson's convoy was involved in a minor collision outside Parliament when a protester ran towards the cars.” Demonstrator, who was later detained by police, had been protesting about Turkey's action against Kurdish rebels says BBC
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5 years
#Coronavirus bi Kurdî!
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Today we are launching our @KurdishWpodcast with my colleague @rukenix We hope to engage with Kurdish women all over the world and make the transnational connection between women.
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Kurdish Women Podcast
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Welcome to the Kurdish Women Podcast! Today marks the 6th anniversary of the Yazidi Genocide. We hope the international community would bring justice to the victims of the Yazidi Genocide and find the community members who are held in the hands of ISIS.
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5 years
@berilderang Have a look this translation. Definitely helpful 😅 @JaredWall01 might know who wrote this lovely piece🤔
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In a war zone your are more than a child! Kurds’ future @jenanmoussa
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@iAmKudaMaynard The funny thing is the teacher was a Scotish and in the early class someone said there is no differences between English and Scotish people but the teacher explained one hour how they are not the same and he got so angry.
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Zozan Yasar
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Didem Aslan, who presents a TV program at @Haberturk said: "This is not a public television, this is a preference and we prefer not to include Peoples' Democratic Party (Pro-Kurdish Party HDP) to the our program."
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Zozan Yasar
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Nesrin Abdullah, representative from the Syrian Democratic Forces @SDF_Syria taking part in “Ceasefire in the time of COVID-19 an opportunity for Peace?” online panel organised by @FfH_Geneva
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International volunteer Thomas McClure who works in #Rojava sending his message for Kurdish Language day. He has been living in Rojava for 2 year and communicates with local people in Kurmanji. Happy Kurdish Language Day! #rojazimanekurdi
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
I was told by a taxi driver in Kurdistan that it is “aybe” (shame) can’t travel with a male friend but I took taxi many times alone, most of these drivers asked me to marry them. Which one is aybe? We need to change this mentality and government can play a great role here.
Isis mindset 🤢 let me tell you one thing those two lovely couple are most probably un employees & gov will fuck you up if you even touch them you utter imbeciles always ruin the imagine of us, you don’t represent our culture, chock yourself
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#Rojava ronîya çavên Kurdaye!
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Zozan Yasar
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But still we can share and remember our last year Newroz in Akre.
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Last year Akre was full of energy and spirit of Newroz. Today because of coronavirus there is a curfew in Akre
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Zozan Yasar
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International Women’s day in Turkey! #InternationalWomensDay
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Newroz Pîroz Be! Happy Newroz!
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Turkey requests extradition of popular Kurdish former mayor living in UK by @vvanwilgenburg
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“History will never forget what happened to us because it keeps repeating itself. It is filled with defeats and disappointments and it feels like winds that carry heavy dust and make it difficult to breathe.” Absurd and meaningless @Delilsouleman
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Pirtûka hevalê min @MiradBayram ya bi navê “Belkî Îşev Binive” niha li Brîtanyayê ye.
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Zozan Yasar
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This was @davidgraeber ’s last whatsapp profile. Shows how he was a great friend of Kurdish Women. I had so much to learn from his perspective. Rest in peace friend of justice and freedom.
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Behrouz Boochani: how I got out of my Manus Island hell – video
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Hunergeha Welat continues creativity during the lockdown and came up with an amazing piece of music. We all know the "Şervano" song during the Turkish Invasion of Rojava in the middle of the war they worked hard and motivated thousands of people with their art. @HunergehaWelat
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Being a #Kurd is not easy at all as, all the world witnessed and still..Every year thousands and thousands have to leave their country. We have witnessed the genocide, massacres, persecution,endless war.. This is a small family encounter exhibition organised by @refugeejourno
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"We know full well that the solution to the Syrian crisis passes through an agreement with the aforementioned international powers." Interview with @MazloumAbdi by @SyrianDemTimes
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Online university does a great job with university of Rojava. Zaningeha online ya kurdî ji Fransayê bi Zanîngeha Rojava re karekî pir hêja dike.
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Zozan Yasar
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Today American linguist Dr. Michael Chyet on an online class randomly said: “We Kurds should...” bu I think he just feels very Kurdish. Zimanzanê Amerîkî Dr. Michael Chyet îro bi şaşî got “divê em Kurd..” min qet nedîtibû ku bîyanîyekî ewqas xwe Kurd hiskiribû.
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First time I see a man in Kurdistan say “I was wrong” for criticising a couple who were kissing in Hewler.
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Stay tuned for and interview with Kurdish activist and politician @RozaSalih a selected number 1 @theSNP list candidate for #Glasgow Interview will soon be on @bellacaledonia
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Sanırım iklim değişikliği üzerine yapılmış en anlamlı protesto olmuş. Geleceğimiz ayaklarımızın altında. Zarar vermeyin! #climatechange
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Then happy #Kurdish clothes day!
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After spending 13 days in Kurdistan I am in London and at 5:30 I took the bus. My brain totally stucked in Kurdistan’s taxi drivers. I told the bus driver. - Slaw kaka, to dachiy stationî Blackhorse Road? I didn’t realise that I am speaking Kurdish. He kindly said Yes!😅
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To Kurdish linguists and experts! There are 6 words for "hero" in Kurdish: Qehreman,gernas,mêrxas,çeleng,fêris, and egîd but all masculine and I couldn't find a way to use them for both female and male. To be honest I do not want to use any of these words for females.
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@EkiplerKenan @ONC3X Here is evidence: made in Turkey!
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Seni Diyarbakırmışsın gibi seviyoruz Hiko😍
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Kurdish Parents' Tragedy: One Child Killed, Two Disabled in Syria Shelling  | Voice of America - English by ⁦⁦ @Rebaz_Majeed
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We #kurds from the North have had enough persecution of #Turkish government. I have experienced myself how they are barbaric and horrendous. We don’t want Turkish occupation,we don’t want more Kurds to be persecuted by Turkish authority in our land. Enough is enough.
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I was talking at Red Cross about the Turkey’s invasion today and I said there: thanks to god that there are some people at the White House writing @realDonaldTrump ’s statements and letters. “If he write his statements as he tweets what would we do? Here you go!
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Diyarbakirda biz kapıcı Umre’den gelen akrabasını ziyarete gittikten sonra coronavirus oluyor ve ailesi başta olmak üzere çalıştığı iki apartmanın komplesine virüsü bulaştırmayı başarıyor şu an da her iki bina da komple karantinada.
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I am pleased I had the opportunity to talk about the long struggle of the Kurds and to raise awareness on the current situation in northern Syria/ #Rojava .Thank you to @Lighthousebks for giving me this chance. It’s time to speak out and spread the word for the #kurds
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“Mum, do you know what we need? We need to resist. I may die for you this is not a problem but we need to defend our people and we should not let our cities fall. Kurdistan will be free okay mum and we will defeat our enemies okay mum?” #Rojava
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"Bolton cared about Iran. Mattis cared about the Islamic State. Jeffrey cared about Turkey.Trump cared about his electoral base.Mike Pompeo cared about pleasing Trump. But no one in the top tier of the administration actually cared about the Syrian people”
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I am really impressed by the work @IKWRO does in the UK under such a difficult conditions. Yes, exactly in the UK where they still consider “honour killing” as part of other cultures and they think they should respect that. Have a look at the case of Banaz and Heshu.
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My business card includes a specially created logo which indicates an ongoing crisis related imprisoned journalists in Turkey and worldwide! #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreedomOfExpression
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Zozan Yasar
4 years
Aziz Oruç was arrested 8 months ago. He is a journalist not a terrorist. He should be released immediately.
@zozanyasar
Zozan Yasar
5 years
#Azizoruc is a journalist not a terrorist. He should be released immediately. #journalismisnotacrime
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