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    Women of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, Argyrokastro/Gjirokastër, August 1914

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    10 hours ago

    In Cairo, probably the most dangerous big city on earth for women, Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in gaol after describing on Facebook how she'd been sexually harassed in a bank; 'fake news', said the judge. She is now being tried for being a terrorist.

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    14 hours ago

    "Hello, this is Mr. Kurd,” the kurdish reporter said as he answered his phone. For Rashidi, Trump’s acknowledgment of his identity as a Kurdish person was far from insulting. Instead, it was a moment of pride.

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    Sep 28

    “The State Department has been internally debating for more than a year whether to shut down the Basra consulate to save money.”

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    21 hours ago

    CHP-linked academic gers over twice the votes of her rival to be appointed dean of ODTÜ's social sciences faculty, but the other candidate is given the job.

    Kıbrıs Harekatı'nın sembolü 'Ayşe', en çok oyu almasına rağmen ODTÜ'ye dekan atanamadı
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    9 hours ago

    Another assassination in Basra in broad daylight - this time the victim is Hayder Shakir, a medical assistant.

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    رئيس اللجنة الامنية في مجلس محافظة جبار الساعدي: اغتيال معاون طبي من قبل مسلحين مجهولين امام مستشفى الصدر التعليمي.
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    Sep 28

    What to make of AKP turning to for help? 1) AKP is desperate, can't find human resources to fill the hole it created 2) They think it can serve as "diet IMF" 3) Signal to West that they are not totally irrational, just desperate but at least capable of acknowledging it.

    Probably best example of “AKP’s Human Resources Problem” so far: Erdogan’s son-in-law & Chief of Economy (in that order) declares that TR will work with , American consulting firm, to restructure economy.…
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  8. 15 hours ago

    According to secret KDP documents leaked to Lvin magazine in 2012: KDP's actual voting base in Erbil is 25%, Duhok: 39.88% and Sulimania 6.47%; KDP security later arrested a senior member inside the organisation bureau who they believed to have leaked the documents:

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  9. 15 hours ago

    KDP has been using such tactics for quite sometime:

    A source inside KDP: Kurdistan Democratic Party has produced thousands of fake Iraqi IDs (Jinsya) which will be used tomorrow in the parliamentary election. KDP members & loyal militiamen have been urged to get the fake IDs and vote more than one time.
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    16 hours ago

    “I am hurting, I am in pain, don’t you have a conscience?”: Turkey Clamps Down on a Group Erdogan Once Championed: Grieving Mothers of the Disappeared:

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    20 hours ago

    Bulgarian customs officials seize 1,566 pounds of heroin found in two Iranian trucks entering Bulgaria from Turkey.

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  12. 15 hours ago

    Very detailed map of where those disappeared were kidnapped:

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  13. 15 hours ago

    Over 90% of those disappeared are Sunnis:

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  14. 15 hours ago

    HRW: between 2014-17, at least 78 men have been forcibly disappeared in , mainly by PMU militias:

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  15. 15 hours ago

    Citing risks from Iran: US State Department is closing diplomatic post in southern Iraqi city of Basra

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    Sep 27

    I spent 19 years mispronouncing my name so others will be able to say it. I wrote this poem about learning/unlearning that habit.

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    18 hours ago

    Someone’s come dressed as a Turkish policeman. Strongest merch game so far at

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  18. 16 hours ago

    This is what happens when you don't actually have a plan. Erbil doesn't need a 150 meter road but they still do it because the contractor is Hemn Group, owned by Nechervan Barzani. The first people who were interviewed to join RudawTV were interviewed in Hemn Group offices!

    Construction work begins on ’s 150 meter road
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  19. Sep 28

    The KDP-PUK dispute over the Iraqi presidency is so much a big deal that it'll have more ramifications over power-sharing in and next KRG government formation than Sep 30 local parliamentary elections.

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    Sep 27

    I hear Turkey’s hired McKinsey to run the economy. Spoiler alert: a bunch of academically successful kids who don’t get enough sleep are going to prepare infinite powerpoints which are intentionally recursive and don’t actually solve the problem so the fees continue forever.

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