Nytimes.com | By Carlotta Gall Photographs by Mauricio Lima

In his push for economic development, Turkey’s president has flooded the archaeological gem of Hasankeyf and displaced thousands of families.

HASANKEYF, Turkey — There was something exceptional about Hasankeyf that made visitors fall in love with the town on first sight.

Rudaw.net Fazel Hawramy

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal to save the life of a Syrian Kurdish man imprisoned and allegedly tortured in Iran by intelligence agents.

rudaw.net | By Karwan Faidhi Dri | 26/06/2020

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A Turkish court has sentenced 68 Kurdish politicians and civil activists, including a former mayor, to up to ten years in prison for their alleged links to an umbrella group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). 

theguardian.com | Bethan McKernan | Wed 24 Jun 2020

Local election gains by the HDP in 2019 have been eroded by a government crackdown.

kurdistan24.net | 24/06/2020

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday evening killed three civilian females at a residence in the village of Helincê, located outside the northern Syrian city of Kobani, according to local security forces.

Ahvalnews.com | By David Phillips

Former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton’s new book, “The Room Where It Happened”, is a damning account of Donald Trump’s presidency and kow-towing to authoritarian world leaders. It highlights a pattern of unethical and illegal behaviour, including how Trump gave “personal favours to dictators he liked.” According to Bolton, Trump practiced "obstruction of justice as a way of life”.

Voanews.com | By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo

WASHINGTON - Iran has withheld confirmation of its apparent recent execution of a Kurdish activist, in the latest example of its long-running practice of secretly executing ethnic minority dissidents.

Nytimes.com | By Alissa J. Rubin

MOSUL, Iraq — From the moment Iraq’s new prime minister stepped off the Iraqi Army MI-17 helicopter for a tour of Mosul, the city most damaged by the Islamic State’s takeover in 2014, he plunged into a landscape of loss.

nytimes.com | By Ben Hubbard | 15/06/2020

President Bashar al-Assad faces threats he cannot bomb into submission, as protests erupt over living standards and a rift opens among the ruling elite.`

Washingtonpost.com | By Philip Bump