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A nomad from the mountains of Kurdistan. Kurdish and regional politics.

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Joined June 2009
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  1. 2 hours ago

    Ocalan’s mostly ‘irrelevance’ in this election was no surprise to me (others too). My tweet from over two months ago:

    Ocalan’s leverage over PKK/KCK has considerably weakened; Cemil Bayik is the real deal. So any Turkish detente with SDF would be due US pressure not Ocalan’s letter but Bayik wouldn’t mind people thinking Ocalan is still the undisputed authority while in reality he leads the show …
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  2. 2 hours ago

    Few things re Ocalan: 1- his personal influence over Kurdish movement is waning 2- but his brand and symbolism will remain largely untouched 3- Cemil Bayik & co are happy with HDP’s direction 4- Bayik is also engineer of Rojava’s moves 4- Bayik is more influential on the ground

    7 things we learned from Istanbul election: 1- A defeat for Erdogan 2- Ocalan irrelevant…
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    23 hours ago

    Does the Iraqi President see parallels between the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003 and the rhetoric now around Iran? Saddam Hussein, tells me, was a unique case, BUT… “The parallel is as follows: It’s easy to start a war, but very, very difficult to end a war.”

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  4. 2 hours ago

    A small paragraph from the book I found in my notes: “Turkey’s language reform, like its other programmes, was comparatively focused and persistent; Iran’s was diffuse and vacillating.”

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  5. 16 hours ago

    MHP founding leader, Alparslan Türkeş in a speech in 1993: "They say 'as you are a Turkish nationalist you should recognize Kurdish nationalism too'. I tell those to piss off like a dog."

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    "sen türk milliyetçisi olduğun gibi kürt milliyetçisine de hak tanı diyor. tabii ben onlara 'yıkıl oradan köpek!' diyorum." alparslan türkeş, 1993
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  6. 17 hours ago

    Such a thing is unthinkable today: A video of the call to prayer (adhan) recited in Turkish rather than Arabic from 1932 to 1950 across Turkey.

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    1932’den 1950’ye kadar camilerde okunan türkçe ezan. kaynak: 32. gün arşivi
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  7. 18 hours ago

    This is a welcome and much needed move but I hope it is not a MBS-style reform.

    . “detailed his plans to reduce dependence on oil and gas by investing in agriculture, industry, and tourism, among other sectors.”
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  8. 24 hours ago

    “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means...A war plan results directly from the political conditions of the two warring states, as well as from their relations to third powers.” On War by Carl Clausewitz

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  9. Jun 25

    Yeah let’s make it about privacy. So there are no women in Barzani clan who want to be ‘visible’? Only their males (which are plenty)? By the way, you cannot answer your question ‘genuinely’ without asking such questions (which many are very afraid to ask).

    Women are entitled to their own privacy and there’s no obligation on his partner to become visible in the public eye just because her husband is in office. It’s as simple as that — the right to privacy.
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  10. Jun 25

    Since you are asking this question on a tweet of our PM-designate: do you think a public figure who has never been seen with his wife nor allow any female of his clan to be ‘visible’ would believe in ‘women’s visibility’? Note: even Islamist leaders show up with their wives.

    This is a genuine question, are there a significant shortage of women in politics that leads to their complete exclusion in these important talks or are we simply disregarded because women’s visibility are not deemed necessary?
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  11. Jun 25

    A couple weeks ago, a senior KDP leader publicly admitted that a leading radical Salafi leader (who has a channel spreading radical salafi ideology) met Masoud Barzani and praised him for supporting Barzani (video below):

    : A senior KDP official says leading radical Kurdish Salafi cleric Abdulatif Salafi met Masoud Barzani a while ago and he says Salafi has defended Barzani even more than members of KDP's Politburo: …
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  12. Jun 25

    1. It is not Islamophonia 2. I have never seen any women with Niqab in my life in , the fact that there is a top young student with Niqab is a worrying sign of the growing influence of Saudi-funded Salafis (which are backed by the ruling party to ‘counter Islamists’).

    A top female student in was removed from the front row during a celebration ceremony, ordered by the Education Minister of the Region Government (KRG). ⁣ ⁣ ⁣…
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    Jun 24

    Galata Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey, late 1800s (Photo colorized)

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    Jun 13

    sırasıyla; demirel, ecevit, türkeş, yılmaz ve çiller’in ingilizce konuşmaları.

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  15. Jun 24

    Number of people who define themselves as ‘non-religious’ is on rise across the Arab world:

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  16. Jun 24

    According to a new survey conducted this spring, in : is perceived as the greatest threat ahead of the US and Israel:

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    Jun 23

    Is anyone paying attention to these horrors in Syria anymore? Is the Trump administration engaged at all? Or have we in the United States just given up? I honestly don’t know.

    : 1,974 Civilians Killed & Wounded by Regime & Bombardment in Since April 26
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    Jun 23

    Wonderful 😍 A street dog in Istanbul goes to a pharmacy, shows the paw that is in pain and the phmarcist, Banu Cengiz provided treatment.

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    İstanbul’da patisi yaralanan sokak köpeği, gittiği eczanede yardım istedi. Yaralı köpeği tedavi eden Eczacı Banu Cengiz, "Yüreklerinde insan sevgisi, hayvan sevgisi, doğan sevgisi olanlar kapısına gelen bu canlıya müdahale…
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  19. Jun 23

    The second most stupid thing AKP did during this election was using ‘Ocalan card’ which backfired spectacularly! The most stupid thing was pushing for election rerun.

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    Jun 23

    What is also quite mind-blowing are the results in ’s traditionally conservative districts such as Uskudar, Eyup and even pious Fatih, which used to be AKP strongholds now voted for opposition’s Imamoglu.

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