Category: Media
Posted on March 29, 2011 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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Posted on March 16, 2011 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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Posted on March 9, 2011 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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Posted on February 12, 2011 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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Posted on June 9, 2010 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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Posted on April 3, 2010 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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Posted on November 25, 2008 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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