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Middle East: Kurds, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran & wider ME.

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  1. 14 minutes ago

    As a Kurd, I should say, he was a better friend of Kurdish people than many of the Kurdish leaders.

    It will be unfair to throw labels at John McCain on Middle East. He was his own thinker. Agreed and disagreed with successive Presidents on issues related to torture, drone strikes, Iraq,…
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    14 hours ago

    Second beauty expert to die in Baghdad within a week. After Dr. Rafeef Al Yasiri sudden death, Rasha Al Hassan passes away in unclear circumstances. Both beauticians are leading female social media figures in Iraq

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  3. 40 minutes ago

    Let’s criticize for the sake of criticism and take things out of context. Obama - a presidential candidate - was under fire at the time for not being ‘American’; McCain defends him here (he neither said Arabs are bad or implied that.)

    I have *never* understood the popularity of this particular McCain clip - the woman says she can’t trust Obama because he’s ‘an Arab’ and McCain says ‘No ma’am he’s a decent family man, citizen’. …
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    15 hours ago

    The greatest Egyptian magical realism in the news this week: Egypt's electricity ministry cut off power at the water ministry building because it hasn't paid it's bills. So the water ministry disconnected the water at the electricity ministry.

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  5. 16 hours ago

    I just managed to read this: I must say, I have met with many ENKS leaders, they are by far the most visionless, lazy, money-oriented Kurdish group; they don’t really know what they want; most of the grassroots have abondoned them in the last couple years.

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  6. 16 hours ago

    The 'wrath of olive' in have lunched their website: They claim not to be affiliated with YPG; they operate in all northwest Syria where Turkish army has presence; they claim to have 26 operations in which 50 FSA fighters & 5 Turkish soldiers killed.

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  7. 16 hours ago

    Kurdish population growth in Iraq is in decline (Arab population growth compared to Kurds is much higher even in the IDP camps): Kurdish population in Iraq was 18.9% in 2003; it's 15% now and expected to decline to below 14.9% in 2020.

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  8. 17 hours ago

    More than 1 million and 300 thousand tourists, mostly from Iraq (+ Iranians) have visited Kurdistan in the first eight months of 2018; this is a new record, higher than earlier record of pre-ISIS 2013 when 1 million and 200 thousand touristed flocked to the region.

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    Aug 24

    Current Turkish gallows humour: A prisoner goes to the prison library, asks for a specific book. The guard tells him, "we don't have that book... but we do have the author."

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    23 hours ago

    This photo (📸 ) shows one of Turkey's Saturday Mothers - a group of women who, inspired by the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, have been holding weekly vigils for their missing relatives since 1995. Their 700th vigil was disrupted by police today.

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    Aug 19

    .: “John McCain and the End of Romantic Conservatism”

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    Aug 24

    The untold story of why Sweden’s economy is now growing so fast

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    Aug 23

    ‘Sweden’s rapid intake of huge numbers of refugees and migrants, about 600,000 in total over the past five years, has produced some of the highest growth rates in Europe and will also help it address the challenges of an otherwise aging population.’

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  14. Aug 23

    UN data: unemployment in is: 47% (24% for men; 69% for women) Economic failure seems to matter little given KDP and PUK, who each own their militias, will get their fixed share of votes anyways.

    In the Kurdistan Region of the current unemployment rate stands at 24% for men and 69% for women. …
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  15. Aug 22

    Russia-Manafort Kurdish referendum link? Manafort was leading lobbyist for Kurdish referendum in DC: Russia backed Kurdish move thru oil agreements: & Wikileaks founder was campaigning for the referendum:

    Manafort lobbied for the closure of the US airbase in Kyrgyzstan, a major Russian policy goal, apparently on Deripaska's dime. …
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    Aug 22

    Re-upping this, which was, at the time, the opposite of “Fake News.” Maggie’s reporting looks pretty first rate today.

    The New York Times and a third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he…
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    Aug 21

    I've been skeptical about the wisdom and merit of impeachment. Cohen's guilty plea changes that. The president is clearly guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. He should resign his office or be impeached and removed from office.

    UPDATE: Government's charges against Cohen contain 'no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president' - Trump attorney Giuliani
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  18. Aug 21

    "Turkey is turning northern Syria – Jarabulus and Afrin – into the “Turkish Republic of Northern Syria,” just as it has turned northern Cyprus into a Turkish protectorate through military and economic domination."

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    Aug 21

    ‘s mother: my son is in very bad situation & he is in danger of imminent execution..

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  20. Aug 21

    Finally the report says, Suleimani prefers all Shi’a forces join the government so there won’t be a severe divide and polarisation.

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