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Kurdish 'Foxtrot' gangster flees Turkey to avoid extradition to Sweden
A notorious Kurdish gangster has fled Turkey to avoid extradition on drug-trafficking charges, a Swedish prosecutor has told The National. Rawa Majid, 39, known as the Kurdish Fox, had been living in ...
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From Importer to Exporter: The Netherlands’ Role in Kurdistan’s Agri-Revolution
According to IJsselstein, the region’s relative stability and strong ties with the Netherlands have fueled significant ...
Istanbul mayor's arrest throws Turkey's Kurdish peace bid into doubt
The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...
The Kurdification of Northern Iraq (Assyria) | Opinion
The Kurdification of Assyria, which refers to the surge of Kurdish supremacy at the expense of Assyrian identity, culture, ...
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Reporters Without Borders demands release of detained Iraqi Kurdistan journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Friday for the immediate release of investigative journalists Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwani, alleging that their detention by authorities in Iraqi ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan: RSF calls for the release of investigative journalists Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwani
Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwan, two reporters in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, have been thrown behind bars ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up
City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have ...
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VOA Kurdish: Poverty rate rises in Iraqi Kurdistan
According to the latest survey, any individual in the Kurdistan Region with a monthly income of less than 137,000 Iraqi dinars (about $100) falls below the poverty line. Economic experts suggest ...
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Sulaymaniyah Uprising: A Pivotal Chapter in the Kurdish Struggle Against Saddam
In Sulaymaniyah, suspected resistance members faced execution ... ultimately paving the way for the formation of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in 1992. While the uprising did not immediately ...
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Talks to resume Kurdish oil exports postponed to Thursday after financial disputes
BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talks to speed a resumption in oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have been delayed until Thursday because of disagreements over terms between oil ...
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Talks to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports Postponed to Thursday After Financial Disputes
Talks to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports Postponed to Thursday After Financial Disputes By Ahmed Rasheed, Maha El Dahan and Nerijus Adomaitis BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talks to speed a resumption in ...
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Ocalan's call for peace: The end of the PKK-Turkey conflict?
Winthrop Rodgers is a journalist and analyst based in Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. He focuses on politics, human rights, and political economy.