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Turkey convicts pro-Kurdish party mayor for militant ties
Reuters· 4 hours agoMehmet Siddik Akis, 53, mayor of Hakkari province bordering Iran and Iraq, was detained on Monday and accused of having a high-level role in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers ...
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish mayor two months after election
AOL· 2 days agoPolice detained a pro-Kurdish party mayor in southeast Turkey on Monday over alleged militant links and he has been replaced by the state governor, the interior ministry said, two months after ...
Turkey signals new military intervention in Syria if Kurdish groups hold municipal election
WJTV Jackson· 6 days agoANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey will not hesitate to carry out a new offensive in northern Syria if Kurdish-led groups – which Ankara accuses of linked to outlawed Kurdish militants – go a…
‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoDuring my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with family ...
UN votes to end Iraq political mission established after 2003 US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Iraqi government asked the council in a May 8 letter to wrap up the mission by the end of 2025 and that’s what the resolution does: It extends...
Turkish drone strikes in Syria kill 4 U.S.-backed fighters, wound 11 civilians, Kurdish group says
Associated Press· 5 days agoTurkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria on Friday evening killed four U.S.-backed fighters and...