Category: Media

“Without me, there will be civil war, there will be chaos:” The last card of unpopular dictators

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …

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Kurdistan Region: Land of Masked Men?

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

Kurdistan Region has been called the “Other Iraq,” “the next Dubai,” and is the most stable region of Iraq with a vibrating economy and social life, though primarily enjoyed by the elites and the middle class, which do not make …

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Attacks on media in Iraqi Kurdistan has dramatically increased

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

On February 20, masked gunmen attacked and burned the first and only independent TV channel, Nalia Radio and Television – NRT – in the Kurdistan region for its live coverage of the demonstrations in Sulaimaniyah, which is still continuing today …

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Silencing Everyone in the Middle East out of Hate for One

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

“No friends but the mountains,” is the old Kurdish proverb that seems unable to be shaken off in Kurdish circles around the world. Perhaps it is so because there is more than what meets the eye, or the ears, when …

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In Memoriam: Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, 1930-2010

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The following article is contributed by the writers of Kurdistan Commentary. It is with great sadness that we at Kurdistan Commentary learnt of the passing of Dr Vera B. Saeedpour and we wish to extend our most heartfelt condolences and …

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Turkey’s Judiciary Continues Its Persecution of Kurdish Media

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

With a recent three-year of imprisonment verdict for the former editor of Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily, the country’s judiciary continues to utilize Turkey’s Anti-Terrorism Law to repress freedom of speech. Vedat Kursun, the former editor Azadiya Welat (Free Country), was …

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Iraqi Kurdistan welcomes new media outlet

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The Kurdish population of the Middle East has always been silenced and generally banned/discouraged from participating in mainstream media outlets. We can still see this through the wave of Kurdish journalists being imprisoned or murdered almost on a monthly basis …

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