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@fgeerdink

Journalist in Kurdistan. Spent a year with the PKK and just published the book (Dutch, translations upcoming) about it. Expelled from Turkey, having no regrets.

Suleymanya, Kurdistan
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Joined February 2009
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    25 Jul 2018

    whenever i tweet about my brand new about the , people ask if it's available in english. not yet, but i'll shout it off the roofs when it is, promise! meanwhile, dutch readers describe the book as 'fascinating' and 'a journalistic masterpiece'.

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  2. 9 minutes ago

    here's more pictures. direct reason for these protests is the fact that two civilians in in were killed by two days ago.

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  3. 11 minutes ago

    these pictures of in region in attacking a turkish army base are quite something.

    Update The protesters burned the headquarter and all of the tanks, hummer, camps, all the guns that Turkish uses there. …
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  4. 14 minutes ago

    but the people don't want their leaders to give colonial powers (like turkey is in ) free reign. they don't want kurds fighting kurds, directly or indirectly. clearly some in the kdp areas of kurdistan in iraq are fed up now.

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    update The protesters went to inside the headquarter of the in district shiladze area. …
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  5. 19 minutes ago

    the of the clan, which is in charge of (that part of) the region in , doesn't protest against 's bombs or presence: they are economically fully dependent on turkey, and they hate too (since it's against feudalism).

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  6. 22 minutes ago

    claims to bomb and it does, but all too often kurdish villages in the mountains are targetted (these aren't accidents but turkey denies this all together). turkey has increased army and intelligence presence in in tremendously last couple of years.

    This is big. For the first time protesters in Duhok province against Turkish occupying army. Villagers who has been suffering from Turkish army’s brutality for decades, appear to to have stormed Turkish military base and set on…
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    19 hours ago

    The archaeological map of , each red dot is an archaeological site. More than 20,000 archaeological sites in Iraq, only a few sites were excavated yet.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    that was a nice first meet-up with a canadian woman in . being foreign abroad doesn't naturally mean you have a - we are a diverse group you know :-p - but in this case, yes. we couldn't stop talking :-) to be continued!

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    3 hours ago

    Four Iraqi journalists detained in Mosul and Erbil

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  10. 3 hours ago

    daar heb ik best uitgebreid over geschreven al arnold, bv in mijn boeken 'de jongens zijn dood' en 'dit vuur dooft nooit'. meer info en links op mijn site.

    Replying to @fgeerdink @sinancan77 @MartijnTonies
    Toon je ware moed, zou ik zo zeggen. En deel jouw opinie over de scheidslijn tussen journalistiek en participatie.
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  11. 6 hours ago

    i'm in love with ciwan haco. struck me like lightning when i heard this for the first time.

    Replying to @fgeerdink
    Who is your favorite Kurdish singer?
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  12. 6 hours ago

    my is lousy (working on it) but i do recognise a word you hear often in more activist kurdish music: (i am wounded).

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  13. 6 hours ago

    on the way for with a fellow foreign resident. taxi driver changed from to western pop when i got in. i asked him to change back :-)

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  14. 6 hours ago

    leyla güven continues her , but now from with her daughter by her side. see up thread for the news yesterday.

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  15. 7 hours ago

    another one on here on (which doesn't publish author's names but promise, it's mine).

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  16. 7 hours ago

    eventually, a meeting between iraqi president and erdogan did the trick. more info in two stories about airport i wrote.

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  17. 7 hours ago

    look, planes leaving again over turkish airspace from . it has opened for all flights again this weekend, after closure since oct 2017.

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  18. 7 hours ago

    i don't get it really, it's just been lying there.

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    19 hours ago

    SOHR: Fractions of the “Olive Branch” that operate under Turkey’s command commit a series of new breaches in separated areas in and its countryside

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    7 hours ago

    “Our mother might've said this: that immigrants are the strongest, that we leave our homes behind and rebuild. Everywhere we go, we rebuild.” - Mira T. Lee (Everything Here Is Beautiful)

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  21. 7 hours ago

    the age-old maxim was “no story is worth dying for.” now we added, “but there are stories worth taking risks for.”

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