Sylvain Mercadier
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''Être le taon qui pique le cheval paresseux de temps à autres'' #Socrate #Freelance #Journalist Proud co-founder & director of publication at @Theredlinemedi1
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Hey everyone!
I took time to translate my study about Militias in Iraq that was published in a French research review. Feel free to take a look!
#research
#Iraq
#militias
#politicalscience
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So, as I tweeted in french, I was arrested in
#Istanbul
,
#Turkey
last night on my way to report in
#Diyarbakir
.
I was taken out of the plane right after landing in front of the other passengers by a police officer and taken in costudy for a 2hour interrogation session.
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Bon sinon, je me fais arrêter dans l'avion à Istanbul en débarquant par des policiers. 2heures d'interview et me voilà paré pour la déportation. Apparemment, je suis 1 menace pour la sécurité de la république turque
#Libertedexpression
#turquie
Le consulat français, rien à dire?
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In this country, as with many other authoritarian regimes, "security" is often a fig leaf for repressive measures. Ankara doesn't want foreign journalists reporting their witch hunt against the HDP. Ankara keeps dodging the kurdish question with repression and populist policies.
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I want to thank the few that supported me in the last 24hours, including
@RSF_tr
for relaying the information swiftly. Special thanks to the free medias
@RevueBallast
and
@KEDISTAN
as well as several colleagues I wish not naming here.
#PressFreedom
#Nawrouz
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... as diner and breakfast. Exceptionally, I was allowed ot use my phone to contact a few relatives and tweet my last night message. So there it is. I was expelled from Turkey for wanting to report on
#Nawruz
in Diyarbakir.
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French journalist & "philosopher" Bernard-Henri Lévy (
@BHL
) lost a court case against an independent media (
@blast_france
). Why does it matter?
Well, because
#Blast
had revealed that
#BHL
had recieved a 9M€ check from the emir of
#Qatar
@TamimBinHamad
!!!
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Important to note that the Turkish constitutional court has just started a procedure to dissolve the main Kurdish party in Turkey after years of discrimination against their elected members (MPs, mayors...), the latest crackdown on this formation in Turkey
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I was then told I represent a threat to the (Turkish) Republic's security and that I will be deported in the first plane in the morning. I was accompanied to the Immigration department's "guest house", which is a room locked from outside, where I would sleep without my phone.
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A few 100meters further, this demonstrator was murdered by a sniper. His death didn't prevent the mob to keep advancing toward Palestine st. to join the bulk of the protest. We decided to go back as we were told 4 people died there including a photographer, all shot int the head.
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Édifiant de voir la propagande pro-régime& les hordes de trolls se déchaîner sur 2 journalistes (
@MllerQuentin
&
#Theresedicampo
) venus enquêter s/ les errements d'1 monarque qui pille son pays dans l'indifférence générale.. accusations de pédophilie, de colonialisme... tt y est.
A 3h du matin, dix hommes habillés en civil nous ont arrêtés
@ThereseDiCampo
(📸 indépendante) et moi, à Casablanca. Nous avons été emmenés et expulsés de force du pays sans aucune explication.
Cela dit bcp de l'atmosphère répressive du
#Maroc
🇲🇦
#Journalismisnotacrime
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As my friend & colleague Quentin Muller described in an extensive thread in French earlier, we were both arrested & interrogated in
#Socotra
,
#Yemen
. Head of the Governorate's police, Tourism police & National security took part in our "vetting" for several days.
Dimanche 28 mai, des soldats armés et plusieurs chefs de la police sont venus m'arrêter à mon domicile avec
@Sylv_Mercadier
, à Socotra, au
#Y
émen. Notre matériel et nos passeports ont été confisqués. Conduits au poste de police, nous avons été interrogés pendant 4 jours.
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Other people in the room included an Azeri couple (lady in the women's section), two afghanis, two penjabis, one bangladeshi, one Iraqi from Mosul and a syrian studying in Germany that was denied entrance to Turkey where he anted to visit his aunt. We were given Burger king menus
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Salut à tous pour votre soutien. Je suis arrivé à Orly. Je publierai bientôt quelques infos.
Vive la presse libre ✌🏻
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Que s'est il passé ? Je me rendais à Diyarbakir pour couvrir un évènement culturel
#Kurde
. Ça ne passe pas. Magnanimes, la sécurité ma offert un repas. Je passe la nuit enfermé avec un irakien et un syriens bientôt déportés chez eux. ✌🏻
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1 grand bravo à
@MllerQuentin
qui nuance fermement la propagande qui entoure la ? du rapatriement des
#auxiliairesafghans
de la
#France
en
#Afghanistan
. Mon collègue fait cela alors qu'il boucle en même temps 1 reportage exceptionnel au
#Y
émen.
#respect
à lui
#honte
aux lâcheurs
🇦🇫✈️
La France cesse son pont aérien demain. Aucune prolongation n'est envisagée.
Bilan : 15 auxiliaires et leurs familles ont pu être rapatriés sur 170.
Les avocats reçoivent des messages de panique. Certains me confient ne pas avoir la force de leur dire que tout est foutu.
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Incroyable scène où des manifestants de
#Bassorah
revêtent des
#giletsjaunes
. Pour info, les manifestations de Bassorah devancent le mouvement des GJ de plusieurs mois.
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After that? Chaos and fear... Hundreds of rounds were fired in a few seconds. I hid, along several protesters behind this wall, before it calmed down for a second.
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@abdullahawez
Grabbed from Assyrians. The land was taken from Ainkawa municipality and shifted to Erbil's. The owners of the land (christians of course) were not warned of the procedure. The new land owners are building a 5⭐️residential complex there.
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In Baghdad, last wednesday, I ran behind and jumped in this pickup truck on its way to the protest. People were so cheerful and glad to see foreign journalists present to document their struggle.
#IraqProtests
#Baghdadonfire
#Revolution_now_in_iraq
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Ça valait la peine d'aller chercher un bon cppain doublé d'un grand reporter à l'aéroport, aujourd'hui. Car la récompense vaut son pesant d'or : du miel de l'
#hadramawt
#Y
émen
@MllerQuentin
@GuillaumePitron
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Here, a coffin carrying a martyred demonstrators is being saluted one last time before getting back to his family. People chant "With our souls, with our blood, we'll sacrifice to you oh Iraq"
RIP
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Yesterday, tensions were extreme; snipers had started targeting demonstrators and police. Here a crowd confronts a group of heavy armed policemen who arrested a demonstrators. Eventually, they manage to get him freed w/out blood.
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Avec
@RaphaelLebrujah
, nous sommes allés à
#Raqqa
pour rencontrer l'administration autonome de la région. Difficile de retranscrire l'expérience en 2800 signes, mais voici mon dernier sujet pour
@OuestFrance
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Dernier papier pour
@OuestFrance
à propos de l'opération
#Turquie
au
#Kurdistan
#Irak
contre le
#PKK
. premières victimes de cette guerre à huis clos: les civils.
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There is nothing more beautiful than a people taking the streets to claim their rights.
There is nothing more ugly than to see men desperately trying to discrediting their struggle.
Those who spill the blood are just pawns in their game
#BaghdadProtests
#IraqProtests
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Mon dernier papier pour
@OuestFrance
est un reportage de terrain sur la question épineuse des pillages de sites archéologiques en
#irak
.
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@RashaAlAqeedi
Some would argue that a puppet regime set up by a former colonial boss wasn't quite the golden age. Rather, the short-lived socialist era under Abdul Karim Qassem was indeed, a golden age. But again, some would, only.
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My latest for
@MiddleEastEye
: how the society of Northern Syria is preparing for war against
#Turkey
#resistance
#Syria
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Pleased to present this report on flamingo poaching in Iraq's marshes. With
@MllerQuentin
&
@Sharrock_Chloe
, we spent several days documenting the impact of this sad business after seeing a few posts on social media. Read the full report in the
@guardian
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Bah...
@TariqRamadan
donne des conférences dans des fast food à Saint-Denis maintenant, ou c'est moi ?!?
#d
échéance
#teleislam
#megamosquee
#freremuz
#islamologie
#halal
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Bullets flying over our heads in a cloud of teargas.
#BaghdadProtests
#IraqProtests
#Iraqi_Revolution
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Ravi d'apprendre que
@OuestFrance
a mis en place 1 dispositif de chômage partiel pour ses pigistes dont je fais partie. Cela ne représente pas une somme faramineuse, mais c'est le geste qui compte & qui se démarque du schéma classique de précarité que nous vivons habituellement.
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@malathali16
I did a memorable report in
#Qadisiyeh
with your colleagues
@SalahhHatem
&
@JaafarJotheri
back in the days. I'll never forget my visit of Nipur. Such great heritage. Hoping
#Iraq
has bright days 2 come & will be able 2 promote its unmatched heritage
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Thanks to all those that supported us in the dire incident. We hope journalists in Yemen & Yemenis in general will remain safe from any external pressure in the future. ✌️
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1/ Depuis plusieurs jours, 1 délégation de militants pacifistes tente de se réunir à
#Erbil
, au
#Kurdistan
Irakien pour protester contre l'opération turque sévissant dans la région. On y retrouve des élus EU, des journalistes... Au total, près de 150 personnes furent conviées
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Amazing...
@newlinesmag
manages to publish a piece by a scholar "analyzing the protests in
#Iran
" through the slogan
#JinJiyanAzadi
without mentionning the word
#Kurdish
even once. Great contextualization here.. 👌👏
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@Simo__Ben
@MllerQuentin
Souveraineté = pas le droit d'enquêter sur la corruption chez moi. Quand c'est des locaux, ça va. Mais comme ils finissent tous en taule... 🤷🏻♂️
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Dernier reportage en
#Syrie
, cette fois avec mon confrère
@RaphaelLebrujah
pour
@OrientXXI
: l'invasion turque sonnera-t-elle le glas de l'administration autonome du NE syrien? Enquête menée dans plusieurs villes dont
#Raqqa
où siège l'administration.
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Notre dernier article co-écrit avec
@RaphaelLebrujah
, plus analytique, fais le point sur les enjeux de l'opération turque en
#Syrie
. Publié chez
@rojinfo_
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Notre reportage pour
@RevueBallast
avec
@lperpignaiban
est sorti aujourd'hui. Il retranscrit l'angoisse et la détresse d'un peuple face à une offensive qui ne vise qu'à satisfaire la soif de pouvoir d'un dirigeant en déroute politique.
On lache rien, on continue le combat.
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My contribution was added to this piece run by
@MiddleEastEye
Great quotes from protesters. I must emphasize that all slogans were non sectarian, patriotic, anti-oppression and that protesters started rioting AFTER forces was used by iraqi riot police.
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But here it is: KRG doesn't repress western/white journalists. It doesn't beat them up, or lock them (or almost never, a friend would say). They simply find convenient ways to keep them away.
#Covid
-19 proves once again its a formidable tool to silence dissent & I felt it tonight
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Ca y est! Mon étude sur les milices en
#Irak
est parue dans la revue
@ConfluencesMed
, dirigée par l'
@IiReMMO
. J'y explique la gestation des mouvement armés non conventionnels dans le pays au gré des crises politiques qui ont jalonné son histoire.
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Ne ratez pas le dernier papier de
@HasanSanar
paru dans notre média indépendant
@Theredlinemedi1
.
Ce dossier sur la question des femmes en
#Irak
, particulièrement réussi sur le plan de la richesse des reportages et des sujets, l'est aussi par la qualité des illustrations!
Dans ce dernier article,
@HasanSanar
décrit la situation calamiteuse des femmes dans la province du sud de l'
#Irak
où règnent milices, tribalisme, patriarcat corruption.
#TheRedLine
#femmes
#CrimesAgainstWomen
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In
@The_NewArab
, I described how the KRG's expansionist policy in disputed territories leads to discimination against Christians & other minorities.
@Pontifex
did turn a blind eye on this reality when he greeted the Barzanis in Erbil last sunday.
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Mon reportage pour
@lemondereligion
à
#Najaf
et
#Kerbala
: le pèlerinage d'Arbayn vu de l'intérieur, une communion sans pareille qui a lieu tous les ans. Un rassemblement sans équivalent qui rassemble près de 20 millions de fidèles chiites en Irak.
#irak
#islamchiite
[Reportage] Suivez les 20 millions de fidèles chiites sur les routes de l'Arbaïn, le plus grand pèlerinage musulman au monde, pour commémorer la mort de l'imam Hussein lors de la bataille de Kerbala.
@Sylv_Mercadier
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First Teargas fires. The crowds panicks a bit and then starts assaulting the police position on the bridge for more than an hour before overwhelming them
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Once again, journalist
@MllerQuentin
was arrested and thrown out of a country where he was investigating political mismanagement of an authoritarian regime. This time in
#Morocco
...
Le journaliste
@Mllerquentin
de
@MarianneleMag
(hebdo français) et la photographe
@ThereseDiCampo
ont été appréhendés à leur hôtel de Casablanca à 3h. cette nuit par 10 policiers en civil et expulsés du
#Maroc
. Séisme ou pas, Rabat garde ses réflexes autoritaires envers la presse
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Une destination touristique?
Venez-donc à Raqqa!
Au programme: visite dans les débris d'immeubles détruits par les frappes aériennes de la coalition, pêche à la décharge électrique entre les carcasses de voitures ds l'Euphrate, et pose au pied de l'emblématique signe I💓Raqqa!
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News from
@DefendKurd
. The delegation is now in
#Sulaymanyeh
where, tbh, there is much more freedom of movement. A conference was held on Salem st. More metings and gatherings are scheduled in the coming days.
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Pro-
#kurd
demonstration in
#Paris
today, despite heavy rain. Many french leftist parties present too, as well as the legendary Şivan Perwer who performed after the demonstration.
#Kurdistan
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Mon sujet pour
@OuestFrance
en
#Syrie
sur la menace existentielle à laquelle ft face les chrétiens du NE Syrien, coincés entre le marteau de DAESH et l'enclume de l'armée turque et de ses mercenaires.
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Mon reportage dans les montagnes
#kurdes
d'
#irak
est paru ojd dans les colonnes de
@OuestFrance
.
On y découvre le quotidien d'une population entière qui vit sous la menace des frappes turques.
La collaboration du
#pdk
avec la
#turquie
est aussi abordé.
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...in general that we are only guided by values of freedom of expression & by the desire to inform the world of the realities we witness. A journalist should not be forced to request permission to describe the truth.
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Dernier reportage sur Baghdad, dans la presse écrite cette fois. Irak; la révolution confisquée...
#Iraqprotests
#baghdadprotests
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I'll complete this thread in a few days once a few articles get published. God bless you all. 🙏🏽🦚
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But then the police starting using water canons and teargas on the crowd. This angered the demonstrators that started launching assaults on the forces, eventually repelling them and taking their position.
#Baghdadprotests
#demonstration
#revolution
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@kafel_estrado
@EHSANI22
Alawis are not Muslims according to takfiri laws. The witch hunt of alawis goes back to the times of ibn Taymiyyah. Syrian constitution says pdt MUST be sunni. Few people know that the al-Assads symbolically CONVERTED to sunni Islam to run their country
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Ce soir à 19h, heure d'
#Erbil
(17h heure de Paris) , je serai sur
@BabylonFM993
sur les ondes de l'émission
#frenchtouch
pour parler de mon expérience de journaliste au
#Kurdistan
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On se fait chier à s'immerger, à analyser, déconstruire les préjugés... Et pi M6 débarque dans la place.
Ce numéro d'
#EnqueteExclusive
qui réduit les aspirations de la jeunesse irakienne au maquillage, à l'alcool, aux grosses bagnoles et aux réseaux sociaux est une insulte à celles et ceux qui manifestent, au prix de leur vie, pour un autre futur.
Une insulte.
@ndetavernost
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Mon dernier reportage paru chez
@OrientXXI
fait découvrir le quotidien des habitants de
#Mossoul
+ de 3 ans après la guerre contre
#DAESH
. Toujours beaucoup de misère et de frustrations,sans parler des traumatismes. Mais dans les cendres, l'espoir renaît
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écoeurant...
Les anciens co-maires de Diyarbakir jugés pour avoir introduit la coprésidence mixte
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Let's go for a month of projects in
#iraq
and
#Kurdistan
🇮🇶
#journalism
#reporter
#mediatraining
#mosul
#TheRedLine
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Time to start a THREAD on one of my everyday hero: ... My car!
This little Clio car nicknamed "The
#Nutshell
" or "The Lion", depending on circumstances, brought me from my home village in South of France all the way to
#IraqiKurdistan
in October 2017
pic: The
#Nutshell
in Duhok
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Bein el Haramein (between the two sanctuaries) is one of the most prestigious places to pray. It is located between the shrine of
#imamAbbas
and
#imamHussain
. We were granted exceptionnal permission take pictures from the shrine of Hussain at gharb (sunset prayor)
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Glad to see
@CPJMENA
also stepped in to denounce
#Turkey
's behaviour in regard to my deportation last week.
We, freelancers, without a well established media to defend us, need the support of NGOs as this one or
@RSF_inter
to help us accomplish our work.
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Mon dernier article pour
@RevueBallast
est sorti aujourd'hui.
1 voyage à travers le calvaire de la deuxième ville du Liban Tripoli; ses traumatismes historiques ses leaders politiques son marasme économique, le tt inscrit dans les murs de la ville surnommée la "Mère des Pauvres"
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I want to thank
@EmniyetGM
for helping me reach 1000 followers. I promise I'll use this attnetion to continue raising awareness on political & social issues in the Middle East, especially breaches to freedom of expression & other governmental abuses.
Happy Nawrouz everyone!
✌️
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Quentin and I spent about 9 days under informal house arrest without our equipment, in harsh living conditions (electricity cuts, almost no internet to connect with our relatives...) As my friend Quentin hinted, it was a highly unpleasant situation which left us in disarray...
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So, confident as I was, I boarded from Paris to engage in a new adventure in the land of milk and honey. Alas... Half way through came the hassle: Erbil border office was not accepting my boarding to come to KRG. I spent 4h struggling to arrange the situation with
@DMI_KRG
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En Syrie, les
#soufis
appréhendent l'arrivée des forces turques et de ses supplétifs djihadistes. Reportage à
#Amoudeh
auprès de la confrérie Qadiriyeh pour
@OuestFrance
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Très heureux d'avoir pu mettre mon nom sur la vitale revue
#Confluences
de l'
@IiReMMO
dédiée à l'Irak. J'y fais une analyse de la relation ambiguë qui lie l'Etat irakien aux mouvements paramilitaires dans les pays depuis l'avènement de l'
#Irak
moderne.
Irak : un destin tragique
@IiReMMO
@LaCroix
@CulturesMonde_
@lemondefr
@libe
@abhoffner
@HalaKodmani
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Latest piece for
@RudawEnglish
,
On the frontline with the population of Tell Tamr, the capital of the Khabour plain, and home to some of the last assyrians in the area, whose presence in the area is threatened by the Turkish operation
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@MllerQuentin
previously wrote several articles about the political tensions in Socotra that rose due to the ongoing conflict in Yemen's mainland. (). This investigation obviously displeased some of South Yemen's Council's (STC) mentors.
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#IraqiKurdistan
#Berwari
#Iraq
#Turkey
#PKK
#IDPs
#ecocide
#psychologicalwarfare
Nothing is new under the sun...
The blood still a spill, and war still a run.
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@CalibreObscura
@iraqirevolutio4
@realsadaam
I got hit directly to the neck by a teargas canister last Wednesday in Baghdad. I was knocked down for a few seconds. I can't say for sure if it was the same caliber of canister, but I didn't get an open wound, only a knockout and a bruise. Cops were approximately 40m away
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We were subsequently informed that Quentin's picture had circulated in various social media channels and that powerful non Yemeni individuals (ie STC's backers) wanted Quentin neutralized from doing any work on the island.
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At the gate, in front of all the passengers, I was put aside and rejected, left to watch my plane depart... Informed, the
@DMI_KRG
was shocked. My contact tried one last move, calling the border office in erbil to give me permission. It was refused. So what happenned?
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Eventually, my contact there told me it was solved. But the Turkish security kept telling me they had had no confirmation from erbil... The only reason KRG could invoke was the covid crisis, which my authorisation f/ the media office bypassed, normally (& I had a valid PCR test)
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Thread
Today, I am proud to present
@Theredlinemedi1
, an independent outlet about
#Iraq
my colleagues
@mhmdshiaa
@KahnPaolo
& I created.
In it, we will publish exclusive reports on a specific topic every month in 3 languages: Ar, En & Fr (soon Kurdish)
👉
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Just before my departure, I recieved the super exciting program 4 the day 2 come: an immersion with the pope in his tour to meet the people of Erbil and Ninevah with a herd of journos from all around the world. I mean... What more could a middle east media freak like me dream of?
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Here are a set of pix from the demonstrations.
Got first hand interviews, for any outlet interested too.
#baghdademonstrations
#revolution
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