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Student children hiding from the Iranian bombing and missiles.
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Al Arabiya TV reporter cannot keep her tears while live reporting the dire situation of the NE
#Syria
#Rojava
displaced persons fleeing the Turkish bombardment & shelling.
#SaveTheKurds
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The Turkish drones apparently have killed more Iraqi citizens than the PKK guerrillas in their offensives, airstrikes, and drone attacks in the north of the country under the pretext of fighting the PKK.
Turkish expansionist ambitions are the root of the attacks, not the PKK.
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Journalist
@kamalrauf
reported that the Turkish fascist army is currently suffering defeats in the KRI areas the army has entered. The
#PKK
guerrillas have used anti-tank milano for the first time. The Turkish soldiers withdrew from Khmatur hill.
#TurkeyInvadesKurdistan
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The difference is huge;
The PKK has mobilized its entire media, people, members, local & international friends to avoid a war with the KDP. On the other hand, the KDP has mobilized its entire media, members & friends drumming for a war, a war Turkey is the only winner in it.
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Turkish state media confirms
#Sweden
extradited a Kurdish refugee to the Turkish gov amid Turkey’s demands to lift rejection of Sweden’s membership to NATO.
To unite against brutal Putin, NATO/EU/US are jointly strengthening brutal Erdogan.
No difference b/n the two though.
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A horrible scene of Turkish drones targeting civilians. The airstrikes making life impossible for the Kurdish villagers in the border areas due to regular unexpected bombing& targeting the civilians. Rezhna Dehaty days "we build hope & the Turkish airstrikes destroy our hopes."
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Kurds in several cities in Europe are gathering to condemn the Turkish bombardment of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq borders, the refugees camp in Makhmour & Sinjar areas, as well as Turkish police brutality against the HDP march for peace. Here is
#Hamburg
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Update: The PKK guerrillas using different fighting tactics unfamiliar with the Turkish commandos, ambushing them. Turkish army didnt expected what they are facing now. More details in this FB post in Kurdish Sorani.
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PYD's Salih Muslim confirmed that the KDP has extradited his 21-years-old niece who was taking treatment in a hospital in Erbil to
#Turkey
. His niece was a former YPJ fighter. This is another grave violation of human rights.
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No one asks the KRG & the KDP to stop the Turkish war on the Kurds of
#Turkey
& the PKK on mountains, we know neither can do. What we all want from the KDP & the KRG is so simple: DON’T be Turkish proxies in this war, don’t legitimize Turkish war on Kurds, & don’t ally w/ Turkey.
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KDP militia beating a member of the Kurdistan parliament this way 👇
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Erbil shop announces it will not sell Turkish products/goods. This is a new development as Turkish products has already controlled the KRG market, especially Erbil and Duhok.
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As a Kurd, I urge every single Kurd in any part of this injustice world to stand against the Turkish operations in the KRI/
#Iraq
, mainly b/c this will lead to Kurdish infighting, [Birakuji-fratricidal war]. Put aside your partisan politics, stand against the Turkish aggression.
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ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi was killed in a building only 200 meters away from Turkish military bases on the Syria-Turkey borders.
The media forgot to remind Al-Qurayshi led Turkey-ISIS negotiations in the return of the staff of the Turkish Consulate in Mosul in 2014.
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I don't feel betrayed by the US or any other sides, i feel betrayed by the very Kurdish leaders who've always put their interests first.
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#Breaking
: Iranian drones bombed Kurdish political parties and families on their refugee camps in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
This is horrific, no details of casualties yet. International community should speak up.
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As a Kurd I feel ashamed of my gov. This gov is disgraceful. KRG is shame. Expel the invadibg Turkish state forces in our land. Don't punish those who defend their dignity. You KRG leaders are bunches of oil mafias who have surrendered to the Turkish neo-Ottoman Sultan.
#Breaking
: KRG expresses sadness over deaths and injuries in Shiladze today, accuses a ‘trouble-making hand’ of being behind the protests and vows to punish those responsible.
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The KDP-Barzani Family -KRG- have a 50-years oil contract w/ Turkey. To secure this deal, they must do what Turkey orders them to do. The Barzani family consider themselves as lifetime rulers of KRG, so they need a regional power to protect them & make this dream a reality.
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#Newroz
Pîroz Bêt ✌🏼
A friend sent me videos from Qandil’s Newroz where Kurds worldwide and from the four parts of Kurdistan come together to celebrate in the heart of the mountains that have always been behind us to fight injustice.
Guerrillas’ Newroz has always been special.
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#Breaking
: The Turkish fighter jets killed five Peshmerga and wounded four others in Matina Mount in Duhoki.
Turkey continues bombing, occupying & deforesting Iraq/KRG borders under pretext of attacking PKK, however, civilians & Peshmerga are continuously being targeted.
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If u call d PKK "terrorist org" b/c Turkey calls it, then call Turkey "genocidal state" as PKK call it, if u call d PKK "separatist" then call Turkey "occupier" & if u call the PKK "outlaw", then call Turkey "fascist state," then i'll buy ur impartiality. At least use "." marks.
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An Kurdish-Iraqi Halabja genocide survivor committed suicide today in Halabja suffering from the financial difficulties and the KRG's carelessness to take care of the poor. I will translate the letter he left behind to understand the reasons behind his hopelessness:👇
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These 165 million ppl r not my enemies. Many politicians & regimes from all sides, including Levy, try to turn us enemies of each other.
The Kurdish people, small in numbers, now besieged by Turkey, Iran and Iraq (165 million potential enemies). It is our duty to support them.
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This campaign of ethnic cleansing will turn
#Turkey
to another
#Syria
. Don't underestimate the power of the Kurds. This is not a clash, it is an existential war. It is sad to see Turks, Kurds, Arabs & all peoples of the region will suffer due to the fascism of the Turkish state.
YPG and YPJ will do everything to resist invasion of western Kurdistan and northern Syria by terrorists under Turkish command.
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“We ask no one to fight for us. My people are still here because we have resisted alone countless times before. If we must, we will resist again. What we ask is for the world to be with us in a more difficult task: peace.”
SDF Commander
@MazloumAbdi
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“The Kurds aren’t terrorists. The terrorist sits in Turkish president’s chair in Ankara,”
Ralph Peters, Fox News’ strategic analyst.
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#Breaking
: Turkish warplanes bombed Makhmour Refugee Camp 30 kms from Erbil, under Iraqi Gov control. Meanwhile, they also bombed the KRI villages on the border under the pretext of having PKK bases in the area. These areas are civilian areas, though.
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In a joint statement, 42 Kurdish political parties, including Gorran, PUK, KCK, HDP, PYD, HDK and HDKA condemn Turkish assault on Afrin. I do not see the KDP in the list, neither ENKS nor the KIU.
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Majority of Germans want Turkey kicked out of NATO: survey
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#Norway
,
#Finland
,
#Netherlands
have made the right decisions to halt arms sales to
#Turkey
. All democracies should join stop arms deals with states who commit crimes against humanity & ethnic cleansing. Stopping a dictator, is saving thousands of lives.
#SaveTheKurds
#Rojava
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The PUK’s commando force destroyed an alcohol shop, and building a mosque in place.
The PUK historically was the more progressive party in the KRI, however, struggling w/ gaining legitimacy under the new leadership, it has resorted to the conservative attitudes recently.
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Is
#Demirtas
a PKK member? Were Dersim ppl the PKK loyalists? Were Roboski border porters joining the PKK? Was Ahmet Kaya Ocalan's comrade? Was Guney propagating for PKK? Is Kurdish language the PKK Lang?
Fascist
#Turkish
state hates Kurds. Turkish fascism is root of all evils.
Turkey-related reductionisms and falsities:
1. That Turkey is going to slaughter Kurds in Syria (No, Turkey is fighting the PKK)
2. That the YPG and the PKK are different (No, the YPG reports to the PKK)
4. That this is Erdogan’s war (No, Turkey is bigger than Erdogan)
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This is the KRG capital, covering the 8000-years old Erbil citadel with the Turkish flag to welcome Erdogan.
Erdogan for Kurds is what Putin for Ukrainians or Netanyahu for Palestinians.
Maybe EU-based Kurdish nationalists have a word for their godfather nationalist Barzani?
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Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani justifies Kurdish ethnic cleansing in
#Syria
#Rojava
, saying that "Turkey does not have problems w/ the Kurds, they have a problem with the
#PKK
," accusing the
#PKK
for what Turkey has done.
#TwitterKurds
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Artists showing the injustice of the KRG politicized courts against journalists and activists. Daughter of an activist sentenced for six years showing you the justice affair in our country. Art by Tayyib Abdulrahman.
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Art work showing Turkish atrocities, calling for boycotting Turkish products. Calls for boycotting Turkish products have never been as strong & serious as the past 10 days, in fact first boycott campaign in recent history in Kurdistan region of Iraq.
#TwitterKurds
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The Chief of the General Staff of the Iraqi Armed Forces says that
#Turkey
has five large military airforce bases, 4,000 soldiers, & over 100 military bases in the
#Kurdistan
Region of
#Iraq
, plus another base in Mosul.
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Just got an email from
@Twitter
saying that "Twitter has received a court order regarding my Twitter account,
@KamalChomani
. The correspondence claims that the following Tweet is in violation of Turkish law."
Certainly, anything truth re
#Erdogan
is "a violation of Turkish law."
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THREAD:
The only
#Peshmerga
commander Qadir Khorani [a PUK] who didn't abandon Yazidis & fought against ISIS uncovered for the first time that he has been "investigated several times for not carrying the command to leave
#Sinjar
."
Will translate bits 👇
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KRG doesn't need supreme leaders, it needs institutions. We don't need powerful figures, we need powerful democratic institutions.
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#Turkey
wants to kill the civilians on purpose to create tensions b/n civilians & the PKK & give an excuse to the KRG to put the blame on the PKK. Seems the Turkish drones r smart enough to target "a PKK vehicle" w/in the civilians, why not waiting until it leaves the village?
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One KDP Peshmerga officer told DrawMedia that KDP's Zerevani, Barzan Division, & Rozh Peshmerga are collaborating with the Turkish army against the PKK, adding that the Turkish helicopters are flying & transferring Turkish soldiers from Bamarne military base [KDP zone].
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Shiladze, the town that protested against the Turkish military base in the town in 2019, once again is protesting against the Turkish airstrikes as the Turkish bombardment killed the civilians of the youth yesterday.
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#Turkey
is proud of its Bayraktar drones which have killed hundreds of innocent people in the KRI/Northern Iraq, & selling to parties in the war in various countries.
Now that the Iraqi public has reacted strongly, Turkey puts efforts to cover it & accuse the PKK. Not possible.
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Zakho protesters head toward main Iraq/KRG-Turkey border point. Protesters consider this border point as main point of the KDP/KRG corruption. People are fed up, taking advantage of any incident to pour their rage against the KRG corruption.
#KRGProtests
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This investigation by great
@ZackKopplin
reveals the Kurdistan Region’s
@Masrour_Barzani
has purchased as 12,000 square foot pharmacy worth $18.3 million in Miami. How can anyone convince us that reform is possible under Barzani reign?
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Kurds protesting
@masrour_barzani
in London, calling him “a traitor” for collaborating w/ Turkey against the PKK & calling him “a terrorist”accusing him of being behind murdering of of 3 journalists.
Does
@BorisJohnson
know he met someone who’s accused of killing journalists?
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Hakan Fidan & his godfather Erdogan are architects of war and destruction in Turkey, they have perpetuated massacres against Kurds in Turkey, Syria, & Iraq. Such hypocrites call for peace in Gaza but they do not reflect on their ethnic cleansing policy in Amed, Afrin, Sinjar etc!
Turkish FM Hakan Fidan after meeting with Iranian FM Hossein Amirabdollahian:
- Israeli attacks in Gaza are open violations of international law
- There cannot be different standards for Ukrainians & Palestinians
- Israel should understand peace cannot be established via
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Due to the Iranian regime's authoritarian system, the Kurds are unable to normally express themselves, however, they have always taken advantage of certain societal events to tell Tehran their silence doesn't mean they have forgotten their national democratic cause.
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Nasik Barzinji, one of the judges who sentenced the 5 Kurdish journalists & activists for 6 yrs imprisonment, is a KDP -ruling party- member. Here r two photos showing her participation in the KDP campaigns. All the judges were KDP-affiliates.
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It is absolutely a crime to send blessings to a dictator who used chemical weapons against his people, destroyed thousands of villages & towns & massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent ppl. Saddam = MiddleEast's Hitler, Baathist Party = Nazi Party, & his supporters = Nazists.
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Students respond to the thuggish violence of the puk in Slemani.
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I applaud how, especially the diaspora Kurds, stand by
@Dashni_Morad
against sexist comments & bullying of a backward singer. Let's take this as an opportunity to condemn all acts of sexism, racism & tribal patriarchal mentality of individuals, political parties, leaders & media.
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Son of Masrour Barzani, could be around 15 yrs old, attending a local final football match, shaking hands w/ players & giving medals, sitting among KRG officials & next to French Consul General. This is how Barzanis born as either KRG officials or militia leaders or businessmen.
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You are lying. You r backing the oppressor. I want to remind you this:
"يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْطِ شُهَدَاءَ لِلَّهِ وَلَوْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوِ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالْأَقْرَبِينَ ۚ"
Your witness is not for Allah but for Erdogan.
@chrislhayes
My issue was with the timing and context. I think we should demand accountability for human rights abuses consistently, not simply when it suits our political goals.
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ئێران بۆچی زارا محەمەدی دەخاتە زیندانەوە؟
زانکۆی کوردستان بۆ زانستە پزیشکییەکان و زانکۆی کوردستان لە سنە لە ریزبەندی رانکینگی گۆڤاری تایمز بۆ ٢٠٢٢ لەپێشەوەی کۆی زانکۆکانی عێراق و هەرێمی کوردستانن. ئەو دو زانکۆیە لە سنەی رۆژهەڵاتی کوردستانن.
#زارا_محمەمەدی #زارا #کوردی
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Turkey's response to its Kurdish problem has been genocides, massacres, killing, assassinations, terror, & prisons. It has failed to address the question while the issue has shaped its domestic, regional & even int'l policies.
Talk to
#Ocalan
to address it!
#FreedomForOcalanNow
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I am wondering why do we have the KRG, the KRI & the Kurdistan Parliament Presidencies if they do not have a word on the Turkish occupation?
#TwitterKurds
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Pure orientalism. Bernard-Henri Lévy
@BHL
hopes Americans “build a memorial for all those who died in Kurdistan for the values of the West." Levy must know our ppl have died for their values not West's values. Before existence of West, the Kurds had such the values to die for.
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Little angel Aya Sardar reportedly died of cold on the
#Belarus
-
#Poland
border while her parents tried to take refuge in an EU country. Another victim of oil-war lords in the
#Kurdistan
Region of
#Iraq
, EU's migration policies & Belarus's dirty game of using refugees against EU.
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“We are from poor families. If we were from the rich and political elite families, we would study at the private universities and we wouldn’t need this. We only ask for our monthly stipend. We have not asked to have the revenues of oil & the revenues from the border points.”
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#KRG
spokesperson Safin Dizayee tells Kurdish VOA that "there's no difference b/n the PKK & former Iraqi Govs (Baathist)..." It is so sad to have a gov whose spokesperson is speaking what Turkish MIT & Army wants to hear. This is why I always say this KRG doesnt represent us.
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Your gov & KDP has arrested Qareman Shukri, a journalist in Shiladze for telling the truth about the Turkish airstrikes killing civilians. Your police told his mother: "We need Qareman for 5 minutes." Now 800 five-minutes have passed Qareman has not returned.
@masrour_barzani
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My debut for the
@newlinesmag
is an analysis of the last 30 years of the Kurdish reign in
#Iraq
that led this new refugee exodus.
#Belarus
’ weaponization of migrants aside, many Kurds feel the promise of their homeland was never delivered.
#TwitterKurds
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Qayyis Rabi' Abd-al-Rahman al-Ubaydi, one of the elite officers and commanders of the former Baathist Iraqi Air Force, who has participated in all Iraqi air attacks during 1980-1988 died in a hospital in ERBIL.
Erbil has been a safe-haven for the former Baathists since 2003.
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Karayilan Interview, thread:
After a long time of not appearing in KRI media, PKK leader Murat Karayilan gave an exclusive interview to KNNC TV. Karayilan says that
#Turkey
developed a new strategy of war against the PKK, however, the PKK developed an alternative in its fight.
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My analysis on the Erbil-Ankara line against the PKK published by
@TheNatlInterest
:
If the
@StateDept
@StateDept_NEA
accepts the Ankara-Erbil line on the
#PKK
, then it will provoke a war rather than prevent one.
#TwitterKurds
#KRG
#Turkey
#KDP
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The students feel outcasted by the KDP-PUK/Barzani-Talabani system that has always prioritised the students of the English-speaking private universities on the expense of public university.
Students not only want to be heard, they want a radical change in this inhumane system.
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So appalling to see
#German
gov abandons representatives of the Kurdish-German people to visit the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to call for peace in the region.
This has no interpretation other than serving the occupational and genocidal policies of the Turkish state.
Was sich heute ereignet hat, erinnert an
#Erdo
ğan-Methoden. Es wurde geprüft, ob die Delegation "das Ansehen der Bundesrepublik im Ausland schädigen könnte".
Ein ausführlicher Bericht folgt wenn endlich alle Mitglieder freigelassen werden.
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ئیلهام ئەحمەد و مەزڵوم کۆبانی پێیان گوتین دەکرێ پاشناوت هی هیچ عەشیرەتێک و بنەماڵەیەکی دەستەڵاتدار و سەرمایەدار نەبێت، لەگەڵ سەرۆکی ئەمریکا و لەناو کۆنگرێسیش قسەبکەیت. ئیلهام نەک هەر بۆ کورد ئیلهامێکی جیاوازە، بەڵکو بۆ گەلانی رۆژهەڵاتی ناوەڕاستیش دەکرێ وەک نمونەیەک تەماشابکرێ.
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So why our Kurdish MPs are at the Iraqi Parliament, what's the use of
#Iraq
if refugee camps r being bombed w/o even condemning the aggressor, does
@BarhamSalih
ever speak up? Will
@Fuad_Hussein1
for once condemn
#Turkish
aggression? When Iraqis speak up against
#Turkey
?
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These human rights activists and journalists are under detention in Erbil airport.
Their crime: they have arrived in the kurdistan region to call for peace and report about the Turkish army crimes on the borders, including deforesting the Kurdistan land.
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Iran's bombing and drones have stopped, and people cannot get close to certain areas. More attacks and missiles are expected. The exact details of the casualties are not known.
Families are leaving their homes.
Shouldn't the international community, if exists, say something?
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The PKK is terrorist, the YPG is terrorist, the PYD is terrorist, the HDP is terrorist, the journalists, academics, mayors, MPs, writers, poets, students, lawyers, women & men, activists, cities, towns & villages all r terrorists. Who are the Kurds then?
He aims none but Kurds.
#BREAKING
| President Erdogan says Peoples' Democratic Party equals PKK/YPG/PYD terrorist organization
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Journalist
#SherwanSherwani
's son has a message for you all. Let's listen to his son who is proud of his father for being arrested for fighting corruption & defending democracy. Sherwani is spending his 40th day in KRG-KDP prison, his son shared message on 12th day of his arrest.
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PM Masrour Barzani's
#K24
says "the former cabinet left the new cabinet w/ $27billion debt." $27 billion equals to three years' of
#Syria
's annual budget w/ a population three times of
#Kurdistan
Region. The level of corruption in
#KRG
is unimaginable.
#TwitterKurds
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NRT reporter in
#Geneva
says "Nechirvan Barzani has arrived in Geneva & has bought a Swiss watch for two million dollars to reconcile his son Idris Barzani."
NRT says Barzani's son has left KRI for having some family issues & Barzani wants to return him.
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