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  1. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    We believe in a free press. I just wish they would free themselves from the shackles of their billionaire owners.

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    9 hours ago

    Salman Khairallah, a top Iraqi environmental activist and friend, disappeared yesterday along with a number of other activists in Baghdad. He's been instrumental in rallying support to save the Tigris. It's incumbent on the international environment community to help save him.

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  3. 22 hours ago

    A "philosopher" calls the man who's responsible of civil-war, division of KRG, displacement of 1000s, allying w/ Saddam, closing parliament, under his rule several activists & journalists were murdered, & turned region in2 family business, "father of Kurdish nation." Disgraceful.

    With Massoud , today. Father of the nation. Legendary . Winner of the battle of Shila, after 2017 referendum. He will remain, for all History, as a great fighter for freedom and humanity.
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  4. 23 hours ago

    Kurdistan League 1. Love for football is craziness :) خولی پلە یەکی کوردستان... خۆشەویستیی و سۆزی یاریزان و جەماوەر بۆ تۆپی پێ لە کوردستان و عێڕاق، وەک زۆربەی شوێنەکانی دی دونیا، شێتانەیە. هەمو خەونی منداڵییمان ئەوە بو یەکجار لەسەر یاریگای چیمەن/ فریز یارییبکەین. هەڵۆ VS كۆیە

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    Dec 9

    “To sympathize with pains & sufferings of Kurdish women, men, & children in Syria & as a respect to my beloved fellow Iranians, I am cancelling my concert in Konya, [Turkey]” reads Shahram Nazeri’s statement.

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    Dec 9

    The truth about Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech in 's correspondent released from KDP's prison after 142 days without any tribunal or even seeing any judge. Zuber covered Sidakan region and reported all the Turkish bombardment and civilian casualties.

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    Dec 8

    One day, hopefully in 2020, in Mosul, I will ring the church bell, call for prayer from the mosque, lit the light of the synagogue, and pour the olive oil for Lalish.

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  8. Dec 8

    "بای ذنب قتلت"

    A was made in Tahrir square for the martyrs of Iraqi protesters.
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  9. Dec 8

    I appreciate the KRI Prsdncy asking 4 bringing justice 4 criminals killing Iraqi protesters, good our Prsdncy backs citizens against criminals killing anti-corruption protesters. I also call on KRI 2 call 4 justice against the criminals who killed our protesters in past yrs.

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    Dec 6

    Zozan Berkele was shot by Turkish forces while filming their patrol, while three other journalists have been killed during the latest offensive. It's just one method Turkey uses to prevent journalists and researchers from covering its campaign and zone of occupation.

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    Dec 6

    My dear brother Ahmed was murdered tonight, stabbed in the back. He participated in many battles against ISIS as a photojournalist. He covered the protests in Baghdad. Tonight he joins with the other young Iraqis who lost their lives in the protests.

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    Dec 6

    Since is supposed to be an institution 2 study "regional & international" events, it is not only a necessity but also a responsibility to focus a bit & current political atmosphere & atrocities following the invasion of NES.

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    Dec 6

    Shortly after USA announcing the sanctions against some militia leaders, gunmen entered Khillany Square killing 16 & injuring 30 protestors.

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  14. Dec 6

    The KDP allows no sort of gatherings which they have nothing to do to protests against the system. A gathering for in Erbil has not been an issue be4 as Garmiyani was killed by a PUK official. Under Masrour Barzani situation has even got worse.

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  15. Dec 6

    Some question why do people in Erbil, Sulaimani & Duhok not protesting. Look. Yesterday, about 15 to 20 journalists & activists gathered just to commemorate 's assassination. The KDP Asayish wanted to disperse by force & tried to confiscate NRT camera. Police state.

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    Dec 6

    In the last four days two protest activists were kidnapped in , first one was 19 years old female student found dead same day she was providing food and drink with her dad in , second one freelance photographer his fate still unknown

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  17. Dec 6

    High Council of Fatwa opposes "women taxi drivers picking up men," & women hiring taxi "alone at night" or to "outside" the city. The Council wd be to better educate men drivers not to exploit their job & call on police to take tough measures against any exploitation.

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  18. Dec 5

    Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ath-Thaqafi was smart & highly educated, an expert of Quarn, a Quran teacher, yet he was brutal, one of the most brutal rulers of the history of Iraq & Umayyads. One who refits Quran does not mean he does good. Sad & is exploited by brutal leaders.

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    Erdogan, the mass-murdering wanna-be Sultan, plays the pious Muslim, reciting Quran himself in a mosque in London.
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  19. Dec 5

    Award For Freedom offered to Selahettin Demirtas , & here is Demirtas's letter to the ceremony in Kurdish, writing from his prison cell.

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    Dec 5

    today it is exactly six years ago that anti-corruption kawa was murdered in the region in . here's my interview with his widow, shirin amin, who became an mp to fight .

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    Dec 5

    Same old story! Big Sectarian blocs agreed on same sectarian policies to divide next IHEC without respecting the movement on street.

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    Dec 5
    Replying to

    Ev jî lînka li dijî sansûrê ye, ji bo ku li Tirkiyeyê jî bê xwendin:

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  23. Dec 5

    Heta şoreşek e! Xelk dibêje, em sala 2003´yan ji dîktatorekî xilas bûn, niha bi sedan dîktatorên me çêbûn. Bi sedan siyasetvan bi gendeliyê bûne û ne demokratîk in. Ji ber wê xelk daket kolanan. via

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  24. Dec 5

    And the one who is behind his killing, is trying to be re-elected as PUK Political Bureau member. Although the courts have worked on the case & sentenced the assassin, but justice was never served to the one who was behind the assassination. The family wants justice for him.

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  25. Dec 5

    6 yrs ago today, following direct death threats from a PUK Political Bureau member & a top PUK militia official, Kurdish journalist Kawa Garmyani was assassinated. His widow Shirin Garmiyani is a Kurdistan Parliament member now, his son Amed has started started school now.

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    Dec 5

    Abubakr Haladni, lawmaker from Kurdistan Islamic Union opposition party, told Al-Monitor “KRG officials only remember the unification of peshmerga forces in ceremonies, or when the coalition forces put pressure on them.PUK &KDP lack true will to unite thier forces"

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  27. Dec 4

    In total 12 youth from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq had recently joined the SDF to fight against the Turkish army in NE , all had been arrested by the KDP while returning. After spending one week at the KDP prison, they were released yesterday evening.

    The KDP Asayish arrests those who have joined the to fight the Turkish army & its backed extremists n . Two volunteers from Sulaimani who had joined SDF in Rojava were arrested yesterday in Semelka.
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  28. Dec 4

    Several of those "the symbols of Kurdish liberation movement" have done 10s of crimes during pre & post 1991, such crimes MUST be told. Those crimes must not be hidden from the new generation. If we cannot question our past, we cannot have a better future. History should be told.

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  29. Dec 4

    Culture & Youth Ministry issued a decree urging that those media channels/outlets will be closed & books won't be allowed to print if they "insult the symbols of Kurdish liberation movement." reforms target freedom. Y do you accept from ur PUK min?

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  30. Dec 4

    The KDP Asayish arrests those who have joined the to fight the Turkish army & its backed extremists n . Two volunteers from Sulaimani who had joined SDF in Rojava were arrested yesterday in Semelka.

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  31. Dec 4

    86% of the fruit consumed in the Kurdistan Region is imported, the Ministry says. A big industry to develop in a region was almost self-dependent only two decades ago. Since 2003, 1st victim of "economic boom" was agriculture. Oil can be a tool not the ONLY tool of development.

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  32. Dec 4

    ئەگەر یەکێتیی نەتوانێت کۆنگرەی خۆی ببەستێت، چۆن دەتوانێت جێی متمانە بێ بۆ نوێنەرایەتیی خەڵکی کوردستان لە پارلەمانی کوردستان و عێڕاق؟ حیزبێک نەتوانێت خۆی نوێبکاتەوە، سکرتێرێک بۆ خۆی هەڵبژێرێت، چۆن دەتوانێت پرسەکانی خەڵک چارەسەربکات و خەم و ئازارەکانیان کەمبکاتەوە؟

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  33. Dec 2

    I hope Mala Bakhtiyar will always have problems with the PUK & he will always be marginalized by the PUK officials so that he will often share some corruption cases with us.

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  34. Dec 2

    Head of Political Bureau Executive Board Mala Bakhtiyar says that there are some officials in the Kurdistan Region whose bodyguards' salaries in total is "three million dollars monthly."

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    Dec 2

    'Turkey's war against civilians', 's new report, includes: - Strongest evidence yet, inc. first eyewitness testimony, of the 13 October execution of three health-workers - Evidence of new instances of torture, kidnapping, execution of civilians

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  36. Dec 2

    What Iran Did Not Want You to See

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    Dec 1

    1/3 While , blackmail, or abuse is happening to young and old, rich and poor, women and men, girls and boys, our research reveals that most victims are young in high school or university age at all socioeconomic levels.

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    Nov 30

    Footage shows the moment when a Yazidi girl “Ashwaq Haji” faced her ISIS terrorist rapist. She was exposed to the most terrible physical & psychological violations when she was just 14 yrs old. She was kidnapped from in August 2014.

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  39. Nov 29

    After killing tens of innocent protesters, he is now resigning under pressure. No matter who killed the protesters, PM Al-Mahdi should be held accountable as PM and chief of armed forces. Unfortunately he failed to be a statesman, as many expected from him to be.

    : PM announced that he will turn in his resignation from his position in response to today’s statement that was read on behalf of Grand Ayatollah during the Friday Prayer sermon. (1) …
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  40. Nov 29

    $1 billion of Barzani in a Lebanese bank, makes sense.

    لا يحق لريمون رحمة رفع دعوى على بنك البحر المتوسط لأن المليار دولار المهربةمن أموال البرزاني المنهوبة من العراق بإسم شركة وهمية إلى لبنان تخضع لقانون تبييض الأموال وبالتالي أطالب القضاء بالتحرك ووضع يده على العملية وحجز هذا المبلغ المشكوك به
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