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Dr Marhang Baloch (
@MahrangBaloch_
), a leader in the Baloch Executive Committee, shares a compelling account of the distressing situation in Balochistan in an exclusive podcast interview.
#Blochistan
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#StopBalochGenocide
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#EuropeanUnion
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@eremkansoy
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🔴In an exclusive podcast interview, Dr Marhang Baloch, (
@MahrangBaloch_
) a prominent Baloch activist, outlines the core demands of the Baloch movement, emphasising the urgent need for international recognition of Balochistan's identity and an end to the decades-long genocide.
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Twitter suspends Kurdish Lessons’ account
The reason for suspension is unknown but Gulsuma Demir, teacher of Kurdish Lesson, believes her account was suspended due to the complaints made over a poem she shared in Kurdish on twitter.
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🎙️ Dr Marhang Baloch (
@MahrangBaloch_
), leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (
@BalochYakjehtiC
), details Baloch people's demands for identity, land, and an end to decades-long genocide.
Listen to our
#interview
for insights into the challenges faced by the Baloch community:
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Women fighters from the YPJ celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March in the Al-Hasakah province of North and East
#Syria
.
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🔴Dr. Marhang Baloch
(
@MahrangBaloch_
) highlights state-sponsored violence, disappearances, and economic exploitation in
#Balochistan
in an impactful podcast interview. Stay tuned for the full podcast airing on Saturday!
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Medya News is a new developing media project, bringing you real stories & the voice of the
#Kurds
& oppressed peoples in the Middle East & North Africa plus human rights & environmental struggles from around the world. Please follow us & share our stories. Thank you!
#HumanRights
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BREAKING! VIDEO filmed at scene, after Kurdish family killed in Konya. Voices heard to shout "“We will not let a single Kurd be left here!” from people standing near the incident where 7 members of a Kurdish family were all killed and their house burnt to the ground.
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“Do you know what the difference is between
#Erdo
ğan massacring
#Kurds
and
#Putin
massacring
#Ukrainians
?” Catalan MP Gabriel Rufián asks.
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Deniz Özer says: "I know many people follow me because I publish my videos in Kurdish. They prefer Kurdish".
@denoizm
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BREAKING NEWS!
📌 A major Turkish invasion is tonight launched from areas controlled by KDP against Kurdish guerrilla forces of PKK in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The areas of Zap, Avaşîn & Metina are being intensively bombed from the air & ground with air strikes & howitzers.
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BREAKING NEWS. European Parliament passes resolution by 590 votes to 16 calling for the implementation of the ECHR binding ruling on
#Demirta
ş and that he and other political prisoners should be released immediately!
#HumanRights
#Turkey
#Kurds
#Democracy
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📌A former
#Pentagon
official called on the
#US
government on Friday to delist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (
#PKK
) and tell
#Turkey
that the age of ethnic incitement is over.
#USA
|
#DelistPKK
|
#WashingtonExaminer
|
#ISIS
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🔴Tensions rise between Iran and
#Pakistan
,
#Balochistan
region is targeted by both nations
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❺
#MeghanMarkle
donned a message of support for the anti-government protesters in
#Iran
on Tuesday with a t-shirt bearing their famous slogan meaning “
#womanlifefreedom
”.
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Why has Erdoğan chosen this crucial moment to attack the Kurds?
Hear from journalist
@fgeerdink
, expert
@_____mjb
, Kurdish politician
@ad_uzun
and
@RojavaIC
in our first Medya News Twitter Space, this Monday 28 November 7PM CET.
Join via the link here:
.
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🔴
#BREAKING
| The people of
#Van
(Wan) took to the streets in
#protest
against the Turkish authorities' appointment of the ruling
#AKP
's candidate as mayor instead of
#DEMParty
's
#AbdullahZeydan
, who won the majority of votes in Sunday's local
#elections
but was disqualified in
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🔴 Dressed in traditional Kurdish attire, US-led Global Coalition representatives joined SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi (
@MazloumAbdi
) to light the Newroz fire in North and East Syria on Thursday.
#NewrozPirozBe
|
#Newroz2024
|
#TwitterKurds
|
@SalehMaslem
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🧵Belgium has been rocked by a brutal, racist attack, as members of Turkey's ultranationalist Grey Wolves paramilitary group hunted down Kurdish families and elderly people, leaving two in critical condition.
Who are the group - and why aren't Belgian authorities acting?
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Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has lodged a complaint against the country's Defence Ministry and other government bodies, claiming voter fraud in the Kurdish-majority provinces. ()
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🧵
#BREAKING
: Belgian police raided Kurdish television stations in Brussels last night.
Here's what we know so far about the raids - which occurred in tandem with arrests of Kurdish reporters in Turkey, and were timed to coincide with
#KurdishJournalismDay
:
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#Germany
's SPD under scrutiny as members with connections to the
#GreyWolves
, a Turkish group known for violent far-right ideology, run for local office in Filderstadt. ()
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UPDATE: Leading UK politician and long-term supporter of the Kurdish cause
@jeremycorbyn
will be joining our panel tonight, starting at 6PM GMT / 7PM CET.
He'll give the closing address after we hear from
@HDP_Europe
, the Kurdish Red Crescent
@Heyva__Sor
, & more.
Don't miss it:
➡️
#THREAD
: There's just a few hours to go until our Medya News Twitter Space, discussing what can and must be done to meet the challenge in Kurdistan and the wider crisis zone of the
#SyriaTurkeyEarthquake
:
Join us here: , 7PM CET.
We'll hear from:
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German historian and journalist Nikolaus Brauns (
@FuocoSavinelli
) exposed the role that the German intelligence service played in the founding of the 'Grey Wolves' movement in Germany. ()
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Hakan Taş, a German MP, who was on an international delegation seeking to stop a Kurdish fratricidal war was detained in Erbil. Taş was released after 15 hours of detention. Dozens of other people from the delegations are being deported from Erbil including journalist
@fgeerdink
.
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The first
#UK
volunteer to fall in NE
#Syria
died after he jumped onto an
#ISIS
tank and threw a grenade inside, blowing up the tank and stopping the attack.
@coppermining
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🔴A petition calling for the ultra-nationalist
#Turkish
group known as the
#GreyWolves
to be banned is gaining traction, highlighting concerns about the group's alleged extremist activities and influence in
#Europe
()
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As Turkey continues to cut off the water supply from the Euphrates River, 34 more villages are now trying to survive without fresh water supplies in North and East Syria.
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#THREAD
:
Devastating wildfires are sweeping a mountain range in Turkey's Kurdish region.
But are Turkish soldiers responsible for setting the fire?
Video footage leaked this week could suggest the Turkish army is behind the natural disaster:
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French Senator: "Today the Turkish state and Erdoğan are attacking the Kurdish people illegally and in violation of international agreements, world opinion should stand by the
#Kurds
"
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Peshmerga Commander: “Even if the world collapses, I will never fire a single bullet at the PKK”
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The commander of the Peshmerga Secretariat has stated that the attack that was directed against peshmergas at Metîna, which has been blamed on the PKK, was actually from the air, either from an F-16 fighter jet or a drone.
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📍
#PARIS
|
#French
#lawmakers
have demanded a thorough investigation of Friday's deadly attack on
#Kurds
in Paris, and more support to Kurds.
#Kurdes_Paris
|
#ParisRiots
|
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🔴
#Turkey
's
#Kurdish
community has come together to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the
#RoboskiMassacre
in which 34 people, including 19 children, were killed by a
#Turkish
aircraft
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#LATEST
: High ranking Turkish police chief of Ankara police department threatens elected HDP MP Ayşe Acar Başaran with violence shouting at her that he will 'Nail her to the wall!'
#HDPGENELMERKEZ
İ
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🔴 The daughter of political refugees from the Iranian Kurdish province of Mahabad, Jasmin Moghbeli (
@AstroJaws
), has become the first Kurd to leave the Earth as part of a NASA mission to the ISS.
#NASA
|
#JasminMoghbeli
|
#SpaceX
|
#TwitterKurds
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#OPINION
| Fréderike Geerdink reflects on a year since the tragic death of Jîna Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police. Read her heartfelt letter:
🖊️
@fgeerdink
🔗
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⚠️ KURDISH WOMAN ORDERED BY COURT TO SHARE TURKISH FLAG ON SOCIAL MEDIA
#Ru
şenFırat, a Kurdish woman in
#Turkey
, has been subjected to a unique 30-day court sanction where she must share the
#Turkishflag
on her social media accounts. This follows her initial detention for a
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Top official in
#AANES
Ilham Ehmed warns of imminent
#Turkish
attacks holding western powers responsible and defending the rights of the people of
#Rojava
to legitimate self defense
@ElhamAhmadSDC
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➡️
#THREAD
: Shocking new footage shows two members of the Kurdish armed force People's Defence Forces (HPG) reportedly suffering the after-effects of a chemical weapons attack by the Turkish Armed Forces.
Here's all you need to know:
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🔴
#FLASH
| Over 300 ISIS fighters have joined the Turkish Armed Forces and Erbil's KDP special forces invading the Kurdistan Region of Iraq's Barwari region, a top Iraqi-Kurdish official Saadi Ahmed Pire has said. "I have their names and faces. I will provide them to anyone who
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Children from Amazon villages in Brazil who were taken by a Turkish religious group and brought to Turkey have been sent back to their home country after Interpol launched an investigation into the incident.
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#EXCLUSIVE
Top PKK Commander Murat Karayılan shares information in an exclusive interview with
#MedyaNews
on the latest situation in northern
#Iraq
and
#Turkey
's ongoing military operations.
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🔴 Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor, who died this week, stood by the Kurds in the face of attempted genocide by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 1990s.
#Genocide
|
#SaddamHussein
|
#SineadOConnor
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🔴 A leading Kurdish drone engineer was targeted and killed in Monday's drone strike on Arbat Airport, Sulaymaniyah (Silêmanî), Iraqi Kurdistan.
#DroneStrike
|
#TurkeyAttacks
|
#ArbatAirport
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FLASH NEWS. People's Defence Forces (HPG), the armed defence force of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), have today issued a written statement announcing that Turkish military forces are withdrawing from Werxelê & Tabûra districts in Avashin regions of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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It gives the Medya News editorial team great pleasure to announce that Meghan Bodette in Washington DC, who focuses on Turkey, Syria and Kurdish affairs with a particular focus on women's rights is today joining
@medyanews_
as a regular columnist and writer. Welcome
@_____mjb
:)
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📢
#PODCAST
🎧| Mark Campbell interviews prominent Kurdish spokesperson &
#PYD
co-chair
@SalehMaslem
. Topics include recent Turkish attacks, the increased ISIS threat & ongoing security operations against ISIS in the al Hol camp & the case of
#ShamimaBegum
.
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HPG's Military Commander Murat Karayılan responds positively to an interview request from
#MedyaNews
editorial team in an exclusive interview.
by Mark Campbell
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🔴 Syrian Democratic Forces Commander condemns Erdoğan’s hypocrisy in decrying attacks on infrastructure in Gaza while doing the same in North and East Syria.
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🔴Yasin Gül, deputy mayor of
#HeusdenZolder
, who is known for his close links to the Turkish far-right paramilitary organisation
#GreyWolves
, appeared on a televised programme to support Sunday's racist attack targeting Kurds.
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BREAKING NEWS. Tonight there have been spontaneous demonstrations in
#Turkey
by different sections of society including students, socialist groups and trade unions against the growing economic crisis that today pushed the Turkish Lira to record highs against Western currencies
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🗣️We're bringing together journalist
@fgeerdink
, analyst
@_____mjb
, politician
@ad_uzun
and on-the-ground source
@RojavaIC
to analyse Erdoğan's latest threats against the Kurds.
Here's the link to join us, Monday 7PM CET - full details below:
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🔴
#SerhatKahyao
ğlu dies following his detention by Turkish police for celebrating the pro-
#Kurdish
Peoples' Equality and Democracy (
#DEM
) Party ()
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While Erdoğan accuses Israel of war crimes in its Gaza campaign, the Turkish government itself has been accused of war crimes for its relentless attacks on the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, targeting civilian infrastructure.
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We are hoping to see closer ties and the strengthening of our relationship with the AANES, says the USCIRF commissioner Nadine Maenza
@nadinemaenza
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Video footage of a man snorting cocaine while driving a luxury car has triggered widespread outrage in Turkey as the man is allegedly Kürşat Ayvatoğlu, private secretary of Vice-Chair of the ruling AKP.
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#Kurdish
female fighters speak to camera crew before and after successful military operation against Turkish army on Zendura Hill in Medya Defence Zones of N.Iraq
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SDF General Commander Mazlum Abdi comments on the UN report
''It covers only a small part of the war crimes that have been committed here.''
#middleeast
#syria
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🔴 After Turkey's intense air strikes on North and East Syria and Northern Iraq launched in the early hours of Sunday, protests took place in several different European cities.
#AirStrikes
|
#TurkeyAttacksRojava
|
#Iraq
|
#Syria
|
#Protest
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Top commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces
@MazloumAbdi
and
#US
@CENTCOM
have both released statements to express sorrow for the death of three women fighters killed by a Turkish drone in northern
#Syria
.
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Eva Maria Steiger, a German environmentalist activist and anarchist who joined the Women's Protection Units and then the People's Defence Forces, lost her life in a Turkish airstrike on northern Iraq in 2019.
#EvaMariaSteiger
|
#ElefteriaHambi
|
#YPJ
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🔴Tensions escalate as Iran and Pakistan exchange cross-border strikes in Balochistan, leading to Baloch communities protesting against the perceived 'Baloch genocide'. At least nine killed in Pakistani air strikes.
#StopBalochGenocide
|
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
|
#AirStrike
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Women's United Revolutionary Movement fighters give message from Medya Defence Zones and pledge solidarity in struggle against Turkish invasion
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#BreakingNews
The People's Defence Forces have alleged that chemical gas weapons were used by Turkey's military forces during
#Gar
ê operations in Medya Defence Zones.
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💥 Ferhad Shami (
@farhad_shami
), head of the SDF media centre, has condemned the silence of the international community & US-led Global Coalition for their silence in the face of Turkish attacks.
#CivilWar
|
#AANES
|
#AirStrike
🔗
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A mass demonstration denouncing the criminalisation of Kurds and protesting against the Swedish government's NATO policy took place in Stockholm today, organised by the solidarity group Rojava Committees.
#NejtillNato
|
#NotoNATO
|
#FreeOcalan
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Historic Hashtag
#Status4NorthAndEastSyria
goes viral on Twitter hitting world trends as the Autonomous Administration of North and East
#Syria
call for political recognition
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#BREAKING
|
#Journalist
Frederike Geerdink declared persona non grata and deported from
#Kurdistan
Region of
#Iraq
: Geerdink says she was put in a police car as she was about to cross into North-East
#Syria
and taken to
#Erbil
airport.
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What happens in Kurdistan?
Discover the Truth
#medyanews
#news
#middleeast
#Kurdistan
#Turkey
#Syria
#Iraq
#Persian
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A young Kurdish woman & political prisoner
#GaribeGezer
(28) died in Kandıra prison today under extremely suspicious circumstances after months of allegations of sexual, physical & psychological torture. Top human rights lawyers are accusing the Turkish authorities of a cover up.
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🔴The White House has explicitly cited Turkey’s military actions in northeast Syria as a major threat to US national security and foreign policy
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#Sweden
's Foreign Minister Ann Linde has stated that there is concern over Turkey’s attacks in Iraqi
#Kurdistan
. She called on
#Turkey
to comply with international law.
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🔴 Head of the Syrian Democratic Forces Media Centre, Farhad Shami (
@farhad_shami
), calls out Turkish President Erdoğan's hypocrisy in his remarks on Israel-Palestine while Turkish forces continue military actions in Syria.
🔗
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🔴
#Kurdish
leader Ilham Ahmed condemns selective moralism of international community amid Turkish attacks in
#Syria
()
@p_papadopoulou
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